Legal updates and opinions
Authors
News / News
Urgent update: COVID-19 Temporary Employer / Employee Relief Scheme (“TERS”)
by Jacques van Wyk, Director; Andre van Heerden, Senior Associate; and Thabisa Yantolo, Candidate Attorney
The Unemployment Insurance Fund (“UIF“) are accepting June Covid-19 TERS applications on their online portal. The online portal may be accessed at: https://uifecc.labour.gov.za/covid19/. The online portal provides new login rules which are aimed at preventing issues for users logging into the portal.
On 14 July, the Department of Employment and Labour published a statement in which the UIF announced that they have introduced new measures for account verification in order to eliminate fraud. These measures include a new rule that requires applicants on the TERS online portal to insert either the Enterprise number (CK/CIPC) or the ID number of the bank account holder. The purpose of this new rule is to further verify the banking details against the authorised claimant. The UIF Commissioner stated that they expect that the upfront account verification and validation prior to payment will increase the turnaround time by two days.
The full published statement may be accessed at: https://www.gov.za/speeches/employment-and-labour-measures-bank-account-verification-eliminate-fraud-14-jul-2020-0000.
Latest News
Dismissal as an appropriate sanction for workplace bullying
by Jacques van Wyk, Director, Michiel Heyns, Senior Associate and Kelly Sease, Candidate Attorney Workplace bullying The dismissal of an [...]
The importance of witness testimony when seeking to rely on electronic evidence
by Jacques van Wyk, Director, Andre van Heerden, Senior Associate and Danelle Plaatjies, Candidate Attorney Issue Whether the reliance on a [...]
Laws in the Pipeline – Curbing the Construction Mafia
Introduction The Critical Infrastructure Protection Act, 8 of 2019 ("CIPA") and the National Infrastructure Plan ("NIP"), to be gazetted under [...]
When can a trade union operate outside the ambit of its constitution?
This question was answered by the Labour Appeal Court recently in National Union of Metalworkers of SA & others v [...]
Combatting climate change, one block at a time…
Blockchain, the decentralised database that stores information electronically on a computer network, is synonymous with using large quantities of electricity [...]
Characterisation: Much ado about nothing
"Characterisation is the biggest problem of our time" according to the Competition Commission's (Commission) Cartels Division Manager's statement at the [...]
