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We let go of our domestic as we can't afford anymore but such threats of legal action will actually make people rethink about employing domestic.

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Government issues a warning to anyone who employs a domestic worker in South Africa

The Department of Employment and Labour has issued a warning to employers who hire a domestic worker for 24 hours or more per month.
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The Department of Employment and Labour has warned that employers who hire a domestic worker for 24 hours or more per month could face legal action if they do not register them for the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF).
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Sideshow Bob said:
We let go of our domestic as we can't afford anymore but such threats of legal action will actually make people rethink about employing domestic.

businesstech.co.za

Government issues a warning to anyone who employs a domestic worker in South Africa

The Department of Employment and Labour has issued a warning to employers who hire a domestic worker for 24 hours or more per month.
businesstech.co.za businesstech.co.za
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Our esteemed government hasn't quite cottoned onto the concept that the carrot is more effective than the stick.
 
Sideshow Bob said:
We let go of our domestic as we can't afford anymore but such threats of legal action will actually make people rethink about employing domestic.

businesstech.co.za

Government issues a warning to anyone who employs a domestic worker in South Africa

The Department of Employment and Labour has issued a warning to employers who hire a domestic worker for 24 hours or more per month.
businesstech.co.za businesstech.co.za
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Consider this:

We have a goggo living with us on our property in her own room. Years back she used to do piece jobs once a week for us, ironing and cleaning once a week. It was ~ 24 hrs/month, maybe less.

Since then, we retired doin gcleaning ourselves, what she did.

She retired, asked to use a room by us. She now gets her SASSA, watches TV in the room, unwilling to go back to the area she grew up in years back in another province. "Her" house she got from her dad who died, is now used by her daughter, grandson, granddaughter etc. No space for her. Plus they are jobless, hustling in any way for a living. So this is rather practical arrangement (for her).

She does ironing now and then, may wash the dishes or we might, not cleaning as she might hurt herself. In turn we feed her, between my wife and her decide who will cook what based upon what is being prepared, or on weekends decide what she wants for takeaways. She has electricity, a TV she spends most of the time watching if not visiting other goggos in the area, an electric blanket for cold nights, own stove, kettle, a real little flatlet. Plus she has access to the washing machine, fridge etc - anything in the house.

Recognizing her financial position, we give her a few thousand rand per month, this is to keep her going as most of her SASSA and what we give goes to her family out in the sticks. Yet it can't be described in terms of domestic employment. She's doing what she would have done if she had gone to live in the sticks far from her friends, except doing much more and having much less as a retiree. And she still gets pocket money. We also do fetch and cart, taking and getting her from the clinic she has to go to. Thing is she lives on our property. Do we ask her to move, go live by herself somewhere far away, do her own washing by hand, have no TV, electric blanket, no stove, no ...

Interesting situation. Yet we're not willing to throw her out.
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ said:
Consider this:

We have a goggo living with us on our property in her own room. Years back she used to do piece jobs once a week for us, ironing and cleaning once a week. It was ~ 24 hrs/month, maybe less.

Since then, we retired doin gcleaning ourselves, what she did.

She retired, asked to use a room by us. She now gets her SASSA, watches TV in the room, unwilling to go back to the area she grew up in years back in another province. "Her" house she got from her dad who died, is now used by her daughter, grandson, granddaughter etc. No space for her. Plus they are jobless, hustling in any way for a living. So this is rather practical arrangement (for her).

She does ironing now and then, may wash the dishes or we might, not cleaning as she might hurt herself. In turn we feed her, between my wife and her decide who will cook what based upon what is being prepared, or on weekends decide what she wants for takeaways. She has electricity, a TV she spends most of the time watching if not visiting other goggos in the area, an electric blanket for cold nights, own stove, kettle, a real little flatlet. Plus she has access to the washing machine, fridge etc - anything in the house.

Recognizing her financial position, we give her a few thousand rand per month, this is to keep her going as most of her SASSA and what we give goes to her family out in the sticks. Yet it can't be described in terms of domestic employment. She's doing what she would have done if she had gone to live in the sticks far from her friends, except doing much more and having much less as a retiree. And she still gets pocket money. We also do fetch and cart, taking and getting her from the clinic she has to go to. Thing is she lives on our property. Do we ask her to move, go live by herself somewhere far away, do her own washing by hand, have no TV, electric blanket, no stove, no ...

Interesting situation. Yet we're not willing to throw her out.
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All very good, but you must still pay UIF!! The ANC are out of money and if you (and many others) don't pay every possible tax, the ANC have no way to fund themselves. Or did you think they are concerned about Goggo's welfare?
 
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