Some SA companies are not applying for relief schemes for their employees, says the SA Payroll Association.Some companies in SA are allegedly refusing to apply for the government’s temporary employer-employee relief scheme , leaving workers cash-strapped in the lockdown.
The SA Payroll Association said it has received several complaints from employees whose salaries have been cut, but their employers have not tried to claim from the labour department’s Ters. According to the association's president, Arlene Leggat, many employers who have not applied for these funds believed that they would not receive them.UIF and pensions during Covid-19 have been a major concern for employers and employees across the country. Minister of employment and labour Thulas Nxesi has announced a Covid-19 relief fund for employers and their employees. More than 100,000 payments to companies have already been made by the scheme.
“If your company has had to reduce employees’ hours, cut salaries, or both, it is your responsibility to start the application process so that your employees don’t have a reduced salary during these uncertain times,” she said.
This is why 😱
Why the fuck are we paying UIF
We have applied and have received for our staff, very quick and efficient. Then just a form and copy of company statement to proof that you have paid it over to them. It was quite easy. We run a small company with lots of hospitality clients who can't pays us and this helped
But why can’t government make staff to apply for themselves
Easy way for them to let go of staff they don't want don't you think.
No thug can hand himself to police.
And then you get thousands of companies who have tried multiple times to apply, but still haven't received a cent from the useless UIF.
We've been robbed here, my company so stinchy
They doing it deliberately so tht we can go and strike and die in numbers
Hard to believe.
Are they really refusing or they are facing a situation whereby all these years they've been taking employees money meant for UIF but never paid it to UIF & now they're exposed?