06 September – Labour
Today we spoke to David Essau – Business Union Manager of Inspection and Enforcement from the Labour Department. The Labour Inspectors are busy inspecting construction sites and Private Security Sector nationwide to check if the employers are upholding occupational health and safety measures and sound working conditions in these sectors. For more information or to report an employer who is not upholding safety measures at the workplace please contact (021) 460 5911.
We also spoke to Amelia Jansen – UIF Supervisor from the Department of Labour. We were talking about the Unemployment Insurance Fund. According to the Labour Law All employers, including employers of domestic and farm workers, must register themselves and their workers with the Unemployment Insurance Fund or UIF. This fund will pay workers or their families when the worker:
becomes unemployed
cannot work due to illness
is on maternity leave
is on adoption leave
Passes away.
For more information you can contact you can contact your nearest labour Centre or call (021) 941 7000 alternatively visit www.labour.gov.za
Our last interview was with Suraya Mouton – lecturer at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s Nursing College. The College is inviting matriculants to study nursing as we all know that there is a tremendous need for nurses in South Africa. If you want more information you can contact (021) 959 6087. Application forms are available at Municipal libraries in the area, from Western Cape College of Nursing in Klipfontein Road, or on the CPUT website: www.cput.ac.za Applicants must send a letter of application with their forms as well as their June 2007 results or, in the case of post-matrics, 4 copies of their matric certificate. All successful candidates will receive a bursary from the Department of Health in the Western Cape.
We also spoke to Amelia Jansen – UIF Supervisor from the Department of Labour. We were talking about the Unemployment Insurance Fund. According to the Labour Law All employers, including employers of domestic and farm workers, must register themselves and their workers with the Unemployment Insurance Fund or UIF. This fund will pay workers or their families when the worker:
becomes unemployed
cannot work due to illness
is on maternity leave
is on adoption leave
Passes away.
For more information you can contact you can contact your nearest labour Centre or call (021) 941 7000 alternatively visit www.labour.gov.za
Our last interview was with Suraya Mouton – lecturer at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s Nursing College. The College is inviting matriculants to study nursing as we all know that there is a tremendous need for nurses in South Africa. If you want more information you can contact (021) 959 6087. Application forms are available at Municipal libraries in the area, from Western Cape College of Nursing in Klipfontein Road, or on the CPUT website: www.cput.ac.za Applicants must send a letter of application with their forms as well as their June 2007 results or, in the case of post-matrics, 4 copies of their matric certificate. All successful candidates will receive a bursary from the Department of Health in the Western Cape.
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