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UIF REGISTRATIONS:

THE INS AND OUTS

Any employee, including a domestic worker or gardener who UIF Connect will ensure that you are registered
works for you for more than 24 hours per month must be immediately, and your UIF Registration number will
registered with the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF). be placed on your profile in the member Portal. For
the duration of the domestic worker contract, 2%
In brief, the process involves: of the workers earnings must be paid over to the
UIF Fund. This 2% is made up by deducting 1% of
• Creating a Ufiling Profile on www.ufiling.co.za. remuneration from the employee and 1% being paid
• Registering yourself as an employer. by you as employer.
• Register the domestic worker or gardener as an employee.
• Back dating all declarations of salary from employment For assistance contact UIF Connect on:
start date. employers@uifconnect.co.za
info@uifconnect.co.za
When you employ a worker who works 24 hours or more per T: 063 639 4314 (from 9:00 – 15:00 weekdays)
month, you are obliged to register yourself as an employer.
Subsequently, you will also need to register your worker as
your employee.

UIF for domestic workers is a statutory requirement which
must be honoured, both for the transparency of your
working relationship and the protection of workers’ rights.
A domestic worker is a gardener, driver or person who looks
after children, the aged, sick, frail or disabled in a private
household, but not on a farm.

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