UIF Covid-19 applications: SACTWU reports companies for alleged non-compliance
15 September 2020
The COSATU-affiliated Southern African Clothing & Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) has reported 156 clothing and textile companies to the Department of Employment & Labour, for alleged non-compliance with Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) COVID-19 TERS applications.
In a formal letter submitted to the Department’s Director General, Mr Thobile Maliti, the union requests that immediate compliance enforcement inspections be conducted at these companies. The letter, with an accompanying list of companies which are alleged not to have lodged the required applications, was submitted to the Director General on Friday evening.
For some time now, SACTWU has expressed serious concerns about companies which have not applied for the COVID-19 TERS UIF benefit for their employees. Despite repeated reminders, these 156 employers have not replied to the union’s request for them to confirm that they had indeed made such applications. The union would have preferred co-operation from these employers, in order to address the matter more constructively, but clearly they were not prepared to co-operate.