All About Farm workers

Read or download labour legislation published as Acts and Amendments to the Acts

• Basic Conditions of Employment Act

  Applies to all employers and workers and regulates leave, working hours, employment contracts, deductions, pay slips, and termination

All the sectoral determination of an act

• Sectoral Determination 13: Farm Worker Sector
  

Plain English summaries of key topics within labour legislation

• Basic Guide to Annual Leave (Farm Workers)
  Rules for annual leave as prescribed by Sectoral Determination 13 for farm workers.
• Basic Guide to Child Labour (Farm Workers)
  Sectoral Determination 13: for Farm workers does not allow for the employment of children under the age of 15.
• Basic Guide to Deductions (Farm Workers)
  Sectoral Determination 13: allows for deductions from a farm worker’s pay only under certain conditions
• Basic Guide to Employment Contracts (Farm Workers)
  Sectoral Determination 13: requires that employers give farm workers certain details of their employment in writing
• Basic Guide to Family Responsibility Leave (Farm Workers)
  Under Sectoral Determination 13: farm workers may take paid leave to attend to certain family situations.
• Basic Guide to Maternity Leave (Farm Workers)
  Sectoral Determination 13: gives pregnant farm workers the right to take maternity leave.
• Basic Guide to Minimum Wages (Farm Workers)
  Minimum wages as set out in Sectoral Determination 13.
• Basic Guide to Overtime (Farm Workers)
  Sectoral Determination 13: Farm Workers regulates overtime working hours and pay for such hours.
• Basic Guide to Pay Slips (Farm Workers)
  Sectoral Determination 13: stipulates that employers must give farm workers certain details each time they are paid.
• Basic Guide to Public Holidays (Farm Workers)
  Sectoral Determination 13: stipulates the conditions for working on Public Holidays for farm workers.
• Basic Guide to Sick Leave (Farm Workers)
  Rules for sick leave as prescribed by Sectoral Determination 13 for farm workers.
• Basic Guide to Temporary Employment Services (Farm Workers)
  Sectoral Determination 13: sets the regulations for temporary employment agencies for farm workers.
• Basic Guide to Termination (Farm Workers)
  Sectoral Determination 13: Farm Workers stipulates the procedures for termination of an employment contract.
• Basic Guide to UIF Registration
  All employers must register with the UIF or SARS.
• Basic Guide to Working Hours (Farm Workers)
  Sectoral Determination 13: regulates working hours and rest periods for farm workers.
• Basic Guide to Working on Sundays (Farm Workers)
  Sectoral Determination 13: Farm Workers prescribes the wages for working on a Sunday.
• Employer’s Guide to UIF
  Employers must register themselves and their workers with the UIF and pay contributions monthly.
• Worker’s Guide to UIF
  All workers must contribute 1% of their pay to the UIF. To claim for benefits certain documents need to be completed and handed in at a labour centre.

Simple step-by step instructions for processes and procedures

• How To Apply to Pay the UIF Annually

  Employers who want to pay UIF annually may do so before the 7 of March every year.

• How To De-register with the UIF

  Employers must complete certain documents to de-register with the UIF and then follow up to make sure that it has been done.

• How To do UIF Declarations

  Employers can mail, fax, email or do their declarations online.

Download application forms, claim forms, reports, and samples of employment documents with instructions. You can also download templates of documents issued by the Department of Labour

• Form BCEA4 - Pay Slip

  Employers must give their workers pay slips so they can keep record of their pay details.

• Form BCEA5 - Certificate of Service

  Employers must give workers a Certificate of Service when their employment is terminated to prove that they worked for the employer.

• Form UI-19 - Declaration of information of commercial employees and workers employed in a private household

  Employers' must forward this form to the UIF, PRETORIA, 0052 or alternatively fax.

• Form UI-8 - Application for registration as an employer with the UIF

  An application form to register as an employer with the UIF.

• Sample - Employment Contract