The South African government is willing to consider extending the Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme (TERS) to employees of firms that are currently not fully compliant with the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF). Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi has stressed, however, that the benefit would be extended only to those firms that had both registered with the UIF and made a full acknowledgment of their outstanding debt to the fund – a debt that would have to be repaid once business operations had stabilised.
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