Tag: UIF-TERS

Following the President’s announcement on the 28th of February 2021 that the Country would be moving to Level 1 of Lockdown, we are again reminded that the COVID-19 pandemic is an ever-changing situation.

Happy New Year to all of my readers, however following the President’s “Family Meeting” on the 11th of January 2021, we have received, again, numerous amendments to the COVID-19 Lockdown Regulations. For the ease of reference, herewith an updated summary of the regulations inclusive of all amendments and inclusions to date: Download the Latest Regulations…

At 20h00 on the 28th of December 2020, the President announced the implementation of an Adjusted Level 3 Lockdown which takes effect from the 29th of December 2020. This means that we are back to a stricter set of regulations and again a larger impact on your business. While the content of the President’s speech…

Since my last update, various major shifts have occurred in the manner in which business operate. The far-reaching implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic is now more widely understood and the impact on both the local and global economies have been devastating. With government again extending the National State of Disaster in anticipation of a so-called…

It’s been a full two weeks since my last update, and again it is a case of a lot of things happening very fast. As government has been preparing for the Risk Adjusted Approach to restarting the economy, various new changes have taken place which we will assess herein: DMA Regulations – Alert Level 4…

It has been another busy day with Cabinet briefing the public on the newly gazetted amendments to the COVID-19 Lockdown Regulations (Which you can download here), as well as the UIF-TERS online portal finally going live. Amended Regulations I have again provided a combined version of the Lockdown Regulations which includes the latest amendments (Download…

After lengthy engagements between stakeholders and the Department of Employment and Labour (DEL), various changes have been affected as relates to the application for UIF-TERS benefits, including the correction of several issues in the Draft Memorandum of Undertaking (MOA).

Good Evening. It is now day 13 of the Lockdown and the Department of Employment and Labour have finally published the updates to the Directive relating to the COVID-19 Temporary Employee / Employer Relief Scheme. We have already compiled a useful combined version which incorporates the latest amendments along with a handy reference to the…

We are now fully in the swing of things and government has issued some additional revisions along with some relaxations to the existing regulations. As there are now fully four (4) separate documents that make up the DMA Regulations for the Lockdown, I have combined all of the amendments into a simpler and easier to…