The ministry on Monday appealed to companies not to take advantage of money earmarked for employees.
“It is alleged that there are companies that have not paid the workers what is due to them. We are aware of some companies allegedly loaning employees the money and that is not legal.“We are also aware of other companies that are allegedly paying part of the money and not the full amount, as well as companies using the money for something else, other than the intended purpose. If [these] allegations are true, we appeal to companies to do the right thing still,” said Nxesi in a statement.
He said the Unemployment Insurance Fund had paid out more than R21bn benefiting 3,609,161 workers represented by 314,454 employers.fund awaits further details from employers to be able to soften the financial blow for at least 725,791 workers represented by 123,977 employers. “The May payments are already at R3.2bn and have benefited 782,602 workers represented by 57,260 employers. Unfortunately, even in this round 85,049 workers who would have benefited from R356m in payments have still not received the money as the details submitted by employers are missing,” the ministry said in a statement.
“It is tempting to think of this appeal as counterintuitive, in the sense that we would be wanting to save money because it is clear that the demands on the UIF going forward are going to be massive. But we move from the point that it’s important that workers are not disadvantaged and as such, we appeal for the details so that the fund can help those who need the money or for whom this may be the only source of funds,” said Nxesi.
They won't pay them because they know that nothing will happen.
Seems like those immoral employers are following governments example. Special place in hell for all of them.
RUBBISH!!!! Which COMPANY DID YOU PAY ?
that's bad hey!
Another money scheme by government, why not refer this case to Treasurer & SARS to do an audit?
He needs to take action I know some companies they haven't paid a cent companies like adcorp who are labor brokers are ripping off employees our ministers are weak president is weak they need to be tough that's it be hard on this companies are looting employees thet getting rich
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