1 reviews | Active since Sept 2019
UIF is a ****. Who benefits from an employees working lifetime contributions for the fund to be only paying for the past 5 years contributions and only for a minimum of 4years?
I am in my entire working life with a single successful uif claim from when I was dismissed from work in 2022 September 2nd having been employed for 18 months. I have now been in the epwp contract for a year and the contract has expired in August 2025... I am now unable to claim my uif successful due to some section 16(6) which states that an employee ought to have worked for 4 consecutive years to can make a claim. Labour department acted in negligence for allowing year long contracts to be in place whereas they were debating uif contributions from the entire employees who were in the below minimum wage category with the anticipation of making a successful claim for uif benefits. This whole process is a **** by the labour department because they have failed to protect employees from the insecure jobs and yet took uif contributions only to reject claims with statutes and clauses unknown to the workers. I personally have been working since 1999 to 2017 without a claim for having absconded from Makro, resigned from Shoprite having been injured in the workplace and no intervention was made by the labour department to enforce ppe wearing as was the best prevention for a loaded pallet jack rolling on my big right toe in my casual shoes. A week upon the resignation I had a torn ligament in my left ankle that rendered me incapacitated and on crutches for 2years 2017 12th July... 2020 to 2022 is the only uif claim that was successfully paid because previous claims were rejected for resignation and the one expired from capacity staff delaying the submission to labour after I had worked for 3 days. I perceive the department of labour as a deterrent that fails the very very labour force that looks to it for protection and compensation of benefits anticipated. Who is benefited by the entire contributions to the unemployment insurance fund if they are only paying for the previous five years of service??? Exploitation, embezzlement and deception with a false sense of security.
