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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

There has been payroll confusion, since the Minister of Labour announced on 17 March an amendment to the ‘scale of benefits' described in the Unemployment Insurance Act 2001, which had to be ...

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 ...

The Minister of Labour has increased UIF benefits with effect from 1 April 2017 – but companies shouldn’t adjust their payroll UIF contribution calculations this month. They should rather wait for the ...

More than six weeks ago, Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) online services went down. The fund says it has made a “breakthrough” in terms of alternative measures and will make an announcement ...

Unemployment Insurance Fund ... The DEL can also process new employer registrations by downloading the UI.8 and UI.19 forms from ... Employers can pay their relevant contributions directly to ...

The Department of Labour has been accused of infringing on the constitutional rights of asylum seekers and refugees because of alleged discrimination in providing access to the Unemployment ...

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 ...