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LEGALLY SPEAKING: Workers, families bear the brunt as more employers fail to pay

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LEGALLY SPEAKING: Workers, families bear the brunt as more employers fail to pay retirement contributions..

The lifting of Covid-19 restrictions resulted in a busier year for the Pension Funds Adjudicator. Complaints came thick and fast, jumping by 26% in the year ended in March 2022, compared to when South Africa was under lockdown levels 4 and 5.
A key trend worrying the Office of the Pension Funds Adjudicator (OPFA) is an increasing number of complaints are about employers not paying their workers' pension contributions to the retirement funds as they are supposed to.
19 Oct 2022 10AM English South Africa Business News · Investing

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