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BusinessLive reports that Employment & Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi on Monday amended a directive pertaining to the Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme (Ters) to now allow workers to claim even where their employers did not register them for the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF), provide the required details, or pay the necessary contributions.
Ters, which is administered by the UIF, is a special benefit created by the minister to provide relief to those in formal employment anticipated to lose income as a result of the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown. The amendments, which were signed off by the minister on Monday and were due to be gazetted on Tuesday, come amid a legal challenge by three non-profit organisations (NGOs), namely the Casual Workers Advice Office, the Women on Farms Project and Izwi Domestic Workers. The matter was set down to be heard in court on Thursday but the three NGOs have undertaken to withdraw their application. The applicants had also wanted workers to be permitted to apply for Ters benefits directly because, initially, it was only employers who could apply for the benefit on behalf of employees. But, Nxesi amended the regulations earlier in May to allow employees to apply for the benefit themselves.
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