Registration for UIF with the Department of Labour

Registration for UIF with the Department of Labour

Business, COIDA, Coronavirus Reliefs, Human Resources, WCA

It has been eye opening to see how many employers had correctly registered with SARS for PAYE, UIF and SDL, but had not been registered for UIF with the Department of Labour for UIF, or had been registered, but had not been sending monthly UIF declarations.

Initially this caused huge angst because these employers’ TERS applications were being rejected. Fortunately, UIF has allowed employers to show they had made payment, so they didn’t lose out. However, the next step post TERS will likely be short time working UIF applications where the UIF credits built up by employees will be relevant and these UIF declarations (and history) will be critical for employees to claim.

A linked registration we also see consistently being missed by smaller employers in particular is the WCA/COID registration (required by all employers) and the filing of the annual return of earnings to the Compensation Fund. There will be some pain here particularly if an employee is infected and is then unable to claim from the Compensation Fund because the employer is not registered and/or not in good standing.