Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi says about 20 000 workers who qualify for UIF Covid-19 funds have not applied for relief and he is concerned that employers are not assisting employees to access the funds.
Johannesburg - Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi says about 20 000 workers who qualify for UIF Covid-19 funds have not applied for relief.
The minister said he had several concerns about employers that were not assisting employees to access the relief funds provided by the government. The funds will be paid out by the Unemployment Insurance Fund and employers were encouraged to apply on behalf of their workers. Only 33% of a workers' salary would be covered by the fund and not the entire salary.
The minister said so far, over 100,000 companies had applied to access UIF benefits and a total of R3.3 billion had been paid out. He said 59,000 applications had been processed and that 10,000 had been rejected for various errors which may include missing banking details. On the employers that were defaulting with payments or had not registered their employees, Nxesi said they should come forward and acknowledge their debt and pay it forward so that workers could benefit from the fund.
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