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Employment Survival Guide
- 27 March 2020
- Payroll
- Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
Important:
This version of the survival guide reflects experts’ views as of 25 March 2020.
SHUTDOWN! What about employees? Read the options below:
Annual Leave
Employees may be asked to use their annual leave during this time. This only applies to the statutory portion of annual leave (i.e. 15 business days).
Statutory annual leave is regulated by the BCEA. Section 20 sets out the framework for statutory annual leave. An employer must grant statutory annual leave in accordance with an agreement between the parties. In the absence of an agreement the employer may determine the time for statutory annual leave to be taken. When an employer wishes to send employees home on statutory annual leave to keep them away from the office during a pandemic such as this, it may determine the time for them to take statutory annual leave.
Temporary Employee Relief Scheme
In terms of the TERS process, the UIF may fund the distressed companies directly in relation to the TERS Allowance.
It allows for three types of relief:
- Wage subsidy;
- Wage subsidy and training; and
- Turnaround solution.
The distressed company will only be funded if it meets the key requirements of the UIF which includes that the distressed company is able to demonstrate that it will/or has embarked upon a turnaround or sustainability programme which will result in job preservation at the expiry of the funding agreement.
Disaster Management Fund
The employer may decide, as a direct result from the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to close their business for a period and send employees home. This constitutes a temporary lay-off. If the employer cannot pay employees for this period, the employer can apply for the “National Disaster Benefit” from the UIF. This benefit will be at a flat rate equal to the minimum wage (R3,500) per employee for the duration of the shutdown or a maximum period of three months, whichever period is the shortest.
Reduced salary
Employees and employers may negotiate and agree on a reduced salary.
UIF Special Leave
If employees must subject themselves to be self-quarantined for 14 days (or longer) such leave will be recognised as “special leave” and employees will be permitted to apply for UIF benefits which will be paid on condition that the reason for the quarantine meets the necessary requirements.
DISCLAIMER:
The Employment Survival Guide is an informative guide covering a number of topics, which is being published purely for information purposes and is not intended to provide our readers with legal advice. It is important to note that this is a developing issue and that specialists will endeavour to provide updated information as and when it becomes effective.
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