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The urgent need to save the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) from financial mismanagement, governance instability and a lack of consequence management has never been clearer than it is today. This ...

Several Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) beneficiaries serviced by the Department of Labour branch in Randburg, Gauteng, claim they have not received their payments for three months. When The Citizen ...

Employers of domestic workers should submit to the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) adjustments to their wages after their December pay increases, the Labour Department has said. This should be done ...

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is deeply concerned about the financial position of the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) after it emerged that a company was granted an R807 ...

In an unusual move, the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) has sought to place directors of its choice in control of a private company to which it lent hundreds of millions of rand in public funds. The ...

The Fund’s Commissioner, Teboho Maruping, has been on suspension for more than a year, earning more than R1.4 million in that ...

THE stench of corruption, maladministration, and outright fraud emanating from the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s (UIF) Temporary Employee Relief Scheme (Ters) is enough to make even the most hardened ...