Payroll and benefits

• Bonuses and increases

  Neither is automatic in law. Both may become obligations anyway — including through having quietly done it every year without ever saying it was discretionary.

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• Leave: what employees are entitled to

  The area where small employers most often act on what they believe the rules are rather than what they are — usually with the best intentions, and occasionally…

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• Payslips and deductions

  An employee is entitled to written details of what they were paid and what came off it, every time. It is one of the first things asked for when anything goes…

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• Running your first payroll

  Paying somebody is not the same as transferring money to them. Registrations, deductions, deadlines and records — and most of the difficulty is in setting it…

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• Register as an employer

  To deduct employees' tax and pay it over. Before the first payday.

  SARSon hiring

• Register for UIF

  Deducted from the employee and matched by you, with monthly declarations.

  Employment and Labouron hiring

• Register with the Compensation Fund

  Workplace injury cover, and the letter of good standing customers ask for.

  Compensation Fundannual return of earnings

• Skills development levy

  Payable above a payroll threshold, and partly claimable back through a SETA.

  SARSmonthly

• Bargaining council registration

  Where one covers your industry it applies whether or not you joined anything.

  sector councilongoing

A general description, not legal advice — requirements and thresholds change. Confirm the current position with the authority named.

• Payroll Services21
• Suspension3

• Accounting1
• Human Resources—