All employers registering with the Fund need to fill out an “Application as an Employer” form or the UI-8, as well as accompanying forms which one can get from the Department of Labour or download ...

If your salary is R15,000 and you get paid R10,000 on maternity leave, you will receive R3,313.99 total UIF benefits (in the first year of your contribution to UIF) if you work for 125 weekdays ...

New UIF legislation came into effect on 1 April 2002, but it seems there are still many employers who have not made the necessary changes. MyTax.co.za offers some help on the new rules: Up to 31 ...

For manual declarations, download the UI.19 form from www.labour.gov.za and email it to [email protected]. Contributions The department said that employers must pay their UIF ...

The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) has undertaken to pay all valid claims which were not paid, as it begins to wind down the massive campaign of supporting workers through the worst effects of ...

The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) has since the suspension of uFiling processed more than 181,000 claims at service points around the country, totalling a pay out of R419,607,185,” the ...

Silungile Dlamini and Phumzile Mbatha, employer auditors with the provincial Department of Labour, went door-to-door last week checking if all companies' employees are UIF registered PHOTO: Tamlyn ...

In previous years, changes to UIF benefits and the value of contributions deducted from employees (and matched by employer contributions) were implemented on the same date, for the same value. So, ...

Effective 1 June 2021, the contribution ceiling has increased. From this date employers need to subtract 1% of an employee’s basic salary, to a maximum of R177.12 per month (up from R148.72 ...

It therefore makes sense to possibly increase the UIF contribution limit to R17 712 per month, resulting in a maximum monthly contribution of R177.12 for both the employee and employer.

QUESTION: I recently started a small business in Bloemfontein and am unsure about whether or not I should register the few people working for me for UIF. And if I have to, where do I start? ANSWER: It ...