Busa calls for UIF to modernise

JOHANNESBURG - Business Unity South Africa says solutions offered to the Unemployment Insurance Fund have fallen on deaf ears.

Busa and labour federation Cosatu are calling for the fund to be placed under immediate administration. Busa says the UIF system has not been upgraded, which has contributed to its dysfunction.

An urgent meeting has been called with President Cyril Ramaphosa and Labour and Employment Minister Thulas Nxesi.

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Busa's Natalie Singer said, "challenges existed long before Covid19…the crisis and during, hats off R64-billion was paid to people in extreme circumstances."

"What it did do was create an opportunity to look at the administration and the biggest single problem we have is that today modern world that could help create access to updates, the reality is that if you create, once the paper work is in UIF, it needs to be handled manually, there isn’t enough capacity or desire for applications to move faster… people are not receiving their money timeously or not at all.”