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UIF and COIDA for Domestics
By law, all domestic employers who employ any domestic worker in their household for 24 hours or more per month need to register them with the Unemployment Insurance and Workmen’s Compensation Funds (UIF Act and COIDA). By domestic worker, we mean a cleaner, gardener, driver, nanny, au pair, or caregiver looking after the sick, elderly,…
Read MoreEMPLOYING A DOMESTIC WORKER? HERE ARE YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
If you employ a domestic worker (regardless of the hours) you are an employer and therefore legally compelled to register with and contribute to certain funds. 1. Compensation Fund All employers of domestic workers must register with the Compensation Fund. The term “domestic worker”includes a worker, a gardener, a driver of a vehicle, and a caretaker in a private household. Despite the majority of domestic…
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