UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FUND

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UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FUND

• PRESENTATION TO PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON LABOUR
• 12 AUGUST 2003

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DOMESTIC WORKERS

• Pre-registration campaign
• System development
• Form design
• Publicity campaign
• training

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DOMESTIC WORKERS

• Registration campaign
• Publicity campaign
• Actual registration

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CONSTRAINTS

• Complicated registration forms
• Call centre
• Staff shortages
• Telephone line challenges
• Overtime
• Delay in issuing reference numbers

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CONSTRAINTS

• Bad publicity
• Influx of applications
• Multiple registrations
• Delayed reference numbers
• Capacity challenges on online registrations

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SUCCESSES

• Fax on demand
• Voluntary unpaid overtime
• 555329 registrations as at 29 July 2003
• 505596 domestic workers on database
• Online registrations
• Call centre registrations
• Multiple payment options

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MATERNITY BENEFITS

• 100 benefit
• Affordability
• Actuarial input
• Building of reserves
• Nedlac agreement
• Full evaluation
• Impact on reserves

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UIF AMENDMENTS

• PRESS BRIEFING
• PRETORIA
• 2ND JULY 2003

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Section 1

• The Amendment aims to delete the definitions of
  CCMA in order to comply with changes in Section
  37 , where the UIF and the Regional Appeals
  Committees will take over the adjudication of
  appeals.
• The CCMA will no longer have jurisdiction over
  UIF appeals

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Section 1 cont.

• The Amendment aims to delete the definitions of
  Seasonal Worker in order to eliminate the
  unintended of exclusions contained in the current
  definition.
• The amendment aims to bring back into coverage
  those workers who are currently excluded because
  they worked for an aggregate period of less than
  3 months

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Section 3.1(b)

• The current legislation excludes from coverage
• all workers/employees who receive
  renumeration under a learnership agreemnt.
• The amendment aims to exclude from coverage only
  those employees who enter learnerships in terms
  of Section 18(2) of the Skills Development Act 97
  of 1998.

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Section 3.1(c)

• The interpretation of provisions of Section 3 on
  the exclusion of the public service employers and
  employees is too broad and and subject to many
  interpretation.
• The amendment seeks to exclude only those those
  officer or employees as defined under Secton 1(1)
  of the Public Service Act,1994.

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Section 3.1(e)

• Current provisions compels all employees
  including those in receipt of monthly state
  social pension to contribute to the fund, but
  Section 14.1(a) explicitly excludes those
  employees in receipt of state social pension from
  accessing benefits.
• The amendmennt is aimed at eliminating this
  contradiction by excluding those employees in
  receipt of monthly state social pension from
  contributing

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Section 11

• This amemdment is aimed at correcting a mistake
  in which the Minister, instead of the was
  expected in terms to the law to prepare a
  business plan.
• This amendment streamlines the provisions of this
  law with those of the PFMA

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Section 12

• The present legislation does not take into
  account the situation of multiple employement
  relationships and as a result fails to cater for
  those workers work for multiple employers and who
  in the process of their employment lose one or
  more jobs.
• The amendment addresses the above situation by
  insertion a new provision that recognises above
  situaton and brings in a concept of partial
  unemployment for those workers with multiple
  employers in Section 12(5) and 12(6)

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Section 16(iv)

• This amendment is intended to bring in a
  provision that recognises that in the case of
  domestic workers, unemployment may arise as a
  result of the death of the employer of that
  domestic worker.

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Sections 21,24 and 27

• The current provisions in Sections 21,24 and 27
  provides for two benefit regimes which were not
  intended.
• The amendment is aimed at streamlining the
  benefits to allow claims officers to top-up
  benefits for those employees who continue to
  receive income from their employers whilst
  unemployed as result of maternity, ill-health or
  are required by law to take adoption leave.

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Section 37

• This amendment is brought in to replace the
  jurisdiction of the CCMA over UIF matters and to
  allow the UIF Board to appoint Regional Appeals
  Committes to adjudicate all complaints arising
  out of the the decision of the claims officer/s.