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BL Premium reports that companies which received fraudulent payments from the Covid-19 Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme (Ters) from the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) won’t be named and shamed because do to so would be illegal.
Marsha Bronkhorst, acting director-general of the Department of Employment and Labour, told the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) on Wednesday that legal opinion received stated that the memorandum of agreement signed by the department and the UIF did not provide for the naming and shaming when the companies signed it; therefore to do so would be illegal. But the opinion recommended that the UIF institute legal action against the employers and this had started with some of them, Bronkhorst said. Some of those responsible for the irregular expenditure in the UIF have already been sanctioned, she advised. Bronkhorst added that a disciplinary hearing had been finalised for UIF commissioner Teboho Maruping, who was suspended in September last year in relation to allegedly wrongful Ters payments, and its sanction was to be implemented. The hearing of CFO Fezeka Puzi would commence in the next few weeks, she said. The slow pace of finalising investigations into unlawful payments under Ters and of holding those responsible to account also came under the spotlight at Scopa.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Linda Ensor at BusinessLive (subscriber access only)
- Read too, Covid-19 grants: 'Unfair' to name and shame companies who cheated, Scopa told, at Fin24
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