Latest articles on Unemployment Insurance Fund

Come what may, the UIF will pay

Business Sarah Smit - 28 Feb 2021

The fund – the main safety net for unemployed workers – will run at an almost R20-billion deficit

Snip, snip: Mboweni eyes wage bill, other future spending cuts

Business Sarah Smit - 24 Feb 2021

Last year, the finance minister noted that increased government spending has failed to promote growth over the past decade

Eastern Cape citizens don’t have to visit the labour department for UIF

Coronavirus Tshegofatso Mathe - 26 Jan 2021

This measure, aimed at slowing the spread of Covid-19, may shortly be introduced in other regions.

Bus tour operators plead for help

Business Tshegofatso Mathe - 12 Sep 2020

The tourism transport sector was hammered during Covid-19 levels four and five and is asking the government for financial assistance

Auditor general points to the state’s flaws enabling Covid-19 graft

National Lester Kiewit - 2 Sep 2020

AG Kimi Makwetu’s ‘real-time’ audit of contracts and relief schemes indicate ‘a higher risk of fraud and abuse of funds’

UIF resumes relief payments after investigation delay

Business Thando Maeko - 26 Aug 2020

Temporary relief payments were suspended pending an investigation, but the UIF says it’s back on track

Fight the disease of corruption in the same way we fight the coronavirus

Opinion Themba Dlamini - 22 Jul 2020

Gogo Dlamini, Themba Dlamini’s mother, died of Covid-19, but Mzanzi has a chance to rid the country of fraud and exploitation and instead serve ‘Gogo Dlamini’, the people of South Africa

Three million jobs lost and hunger surging amid Covid-19 crisis — survey

Coronavirus Sarah Smit - 15 Jul 2020

Income shocks and the breakdowns in social protection schemes have had consequences for hunger and food insecurity in South Africa

Unemployment fund, CCMA face jobs bloodbath

Business Sarah Smit & Thando Maeko - 2 Jul 2020

State bodies shielding workers have been weakened by budget cuts and high demands

Possible lockdown retrenchments are already soaring

Business Sarah Smit - 29 Jun 2020

After just three months of lockdown, more than 100 000 workers could lose their jobs

Workers battle for UIF payouts

Business Chris Gilili - 26 Jun 2020

Snarl-ups at the Unemployment Insurance Fund and bosses not assisting employees worsens people’s suffering

SA’s economy expected to contract by 7.2% in 2020

Business Tshegofatso Mathe & Thando Maeko - 24 Jun 2020

The economy is in a depressed state, and Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has called for cautious use of the country’s finances to avert plunging into a sovereign debt crisis

Workers rights rolled back as Covid-19 strikes

Business Sarah Smit - 23 Jun 2020

The economic crisis triggered by the pandemic has laid bare longstanding deficiencies in labour rights around the world

Rabid denialist unhinged me

Coronavirus Paddy Harper - 11 Jun 2020

Paddy Harper's getting a Covid-19 Ters payout, the government works and life is more free. He was happy until Maskless Muppet pitched

Women farmworkers call for labour centres to be opened

Coronavirus Chriscy Blouws - 5 Jun 2020

Many womxn who live and work on farms have suffered immensely during the Covid-19 lockdown

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Latest articles on Unemployment Insurance Fund

Come what may, the UIF will pay

Snip, snip: Mboweni eyes wage bill, other future spending cuts

Eastern Cape citizens don’t have to visit the labour department for UIF

Bus tour operators plead for help

Auditor general points to the state’s flaws enabling Covid-19 graft

UIF resumes relief payments after investigation delay

Fight the disease of corruption in the same way we fight the coronavirus

Three million jobs lost and hunger surging amid Covid-19 crisis — survey

Unemployment fund, CCMA face jobs bloodbath

Possible lockdown retrenchments are already soaring

Workers battle for UIF payouts

SA’s economy expected to contract by 7.2% in 2020

Workers rights rolled back as Covid-19 strikes

Rabid denialist unhinged me

Women farmworkers call for labour centres to be opened

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