Firstly, I suspended a project that involved Thuja Holdings Proprietary Limited, Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) and Department of Employment and Labour, (DEL) whilst doing that I also instituted an investigation into Thuja Project before it kicked off. Mthunzi Mdwaba is a CEO of Thuja Holdings Proprietary Limited. Mthunzi Mdwaba was the Chairperson of the Productivity SA Board.
The investigation that I instituted was completed. ...
The Department registers more than1 million work seekers, provides career counselling to more than 300000 work seekers, and has placed about 60000 work seekers into employment, annually. For the period ending September 2023, 69% (32 816) of work seekers placed are young people aged 15-35 years and 31% (14 687) aged 36 years and above.
Through job creation investments the COIDA has created 1,325 ...
Hon. Mkhonto, let me repeat what I stated in the Portfolio Committee meeting. On Wednesday, afternoon of 18 October 2023, I received the letter of intention to resign by the 30 November 2023 from the department’s Director General.
I have then processed the letter containing the intention to resign from the position of the Department of Employment and Labour Director General by and from ...
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE FUND
During the period 2022/23 the Unemployment Insurance Fund issued Intent to Discipline letters to eight (8) SMS members for the Fund’s poor performance in Quarter 2 (decline in performance from Quarter 1 to Quarter 2). This resulted in improved performance in Quarter 3. In addition, one (1) SMS member was disciplined for poor performance and dereliction of duties and issued with ...
The table below shows the total number of unsuccessful and successful UIF applications and expenditure for the financial years 2021/22 and 2022/23.
FINANCIAL YEAR 2021/22 |
FINANCIAL YEAR FINANCIAL YEAR 2022/23 |
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Number of successful UIF Applications |
Number of unsuccessful UIF Applications |
Expenditure |
Number of successful UIF Applications |
Number of unsuccessful UIF Applications |
Expenditure |
1 073 548 |
207 299 |
R22 599 302 590.69 |
982 124 |
185 ... |
Hon. Ngcobo, there is a Department that is known as Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA). It is the DPSA that may have the information that you are looking for. Information on all Government officials and all the departmets are collected and collated by the DPSA. My genuine and sincere advice is that kindly consider asking this question to DPSA.
More »The Department of Employment and labour does have new and existing strategies to curb unemployment in the country. These include:
1. The developed a National Employment Policy (NEP) in line with the ILO Employment Convention No C122 and Employment Policy guidelines with 09 intervention areas. The Draft policy is currently under consultations within government Departments and will be soon tabled to Cabinet before it ...
a) The total number is three (3) based in Kwazulu Natal province, all officials are dismissed from the Department;
b) Five officials were dismissed as follows;
1 Gauteng
1 Northen Cape
1 Western Cape
2 North West
The Director General will evaluate the impact that the approved delay in the submission of the 2021/22 financial statements (which impacted the submission of the 2022/23 annual financial statements) has yielded on the control environment of the Compensation Fund’s control environment, the audit outcome and service delivery performance.
There will be feedback sessions conducted with all stakeholders (management, audit committee, Auditor General) to reflect ...
There is a total of 215 557 claims across all the different lockdown periods that are unprocessed, these are all claims that have been processed however failed validations and verifications due to missing employee’s records/ information. These Covid-19 claims are processed upon correction by employers.
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