⚡ Quick answer If your domestic worker works 24 hours or more a month, you are an employer with legal duties: a written contract or particulars, a monthly payslip (even for cash wages), UIF registration on uFiling with monthly declarations (2% of wages — 1% from them, 1% from you), and COIDA registration with the Compensation Fund. The UIF cost on a R4,500 wage is R90 a month total. Admin Boss registers domestic employers for UIF (R450) and COIDA (R350). The household is South Africa’s most informal workplace — and the one where employer obligations are most often simply unknown. If a domestic worker helps in your home more than…

⚡ Quick answer uFiling (ufiling.co.za) is the Department of Employment & Labour’s online UIF system — the place where employee records, monthly remuneration declarations, terminations and UI-19 forms live. It is separate from SARS: your EMP201 pays the money, but uFiling keeps the record of who works for you and what they earn. Employers who only deal with SARS are half-compliant, and their employees’ claims fail at the counter. Register once, declare monthly by the 7th, and submit the UI-19 when anyone leaves. Ask a room of employers what uFiling is and half will guess it is part of SARS eFiling. It is not — and that misconception is the…

⚡ Quick answer If you never registered for UIF, the position is: you owe contributions back to when you should have registered, plus a 10% penalty and interest — and your employees currently cannot claim. The fix is a four-step routine: register with SARS and uFiling now, capture all employees, back-calculate and settle the arrears (or arrange payment), and file declarations monthly from now on. Thousands of businesses do this every year — it is uncomfortable, finite, and always cheaper than waiting for a claim or inspection to force it. If you have never registered for UIF — or registered years ago and never declared — you are in the…