News / COVID-19
Feb 23,2021
by Jacques van Wyk, Director and Andre van Heerden, Senior Associate
On 27 November 2020 the Department of Employment and Labour (“Department”) and the Unemployment Insurance Fund (“UIF”) announced that there would be “post-verification exercises” (i.e. audits) conducted on employers who received the TERS benefit on behalf of their employees. These audits were to be conducted by audit firms and were to commence from1 December 2020 for a period of 6 months.
A number of companies have been successful in their bids to conduct the audits. Should a company be audited they can expect to be contacted by one of these companies. The list of firms/service providers can be accessed at the following link: http://www.labour.gov.za/Tenders/Awarded-Tenders.
The following documents should be kept readily available, either in hard copy or electronic format, in anticipation of the audit (not an exhaustive list):
The above list is merely the minimum documents required. We therefore recommend that, in addition to the above mentioned documents, employers have the following additional documents readily available: –
The above documents may assist in proving that the business and the employees were entitled to the TERS benefit. If any documents were submitted via email, we advise that a copy of the email/s also be kept readily available.
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