Negotiations underway to bring back UIF Ters payments amid impact of second wave
14 January 2021 4:56 PM
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Business and labour are pressing South Africa s government to introduce a new round of UIF Ters relief to mitigate the impact of the Level 3 lockdown.
Business for South Africa (B4SA) says the relief payments would help support workers negatively affected by the tightened lockdown regulations.
B4SA s Robert Legh has confirmed that talks to bring back the Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme (Ters) have resumed at the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac).
The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) s Ters payments were implemented to mitigate the impact of the hard lockdown and payouts came to an end in October last year.
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After learning that the Department of Employment and Labour had no plans to extend the Unemployment Insurance Fund s Temporary Employer Employee Relief Scheme, business formations and organised labour maintain that the state still has options to keep it going.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions and Business for South Africa both released statements over the weekend and on Monday, decrying what they called a surprise move that the department would not be extending the scheme. There’s more to this story Subscribe to News24 and get access to our
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