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EWN reports that farmworkers have raised concern over access the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF). On Thursday the Women on Farms Project hosted a UIF Indaba in Worcester.
Over 200 people from across the province gathered at a local hall and Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi joined in via video. Farmworkers highlighted issues such as long waiting periods to access UIF benefits as well as a lack of staff and resources at some UIF offices. One seasonal farmworker from De Doorns said they were serviced by only three staff members, who also saw to other towns. “Please minister, can you act, because on De Doorns it’s overflowing with seasonal workers, that is the place with seasonal workers,” said one of the affected workers. Danielle de Witt from the Commercial, Stevedoring, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union said there'd been no assistance from the department in Robertson since last year. “What must we do now? Our people are suffering, our people hungry and they are suffering a lot and nobody gives a damn. I am putting it like it is about the UIF,” De Witt asked. Nxesi acknowledged that agricultural areas needed more staff at labour centres.
- Read the original of the short report in the above regard by Kaylynn Palm at EWN
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