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Kenya: NSSF to visit homes in hunt for unregistered workers

Kenya: NSSF to visit homes in hunt for unregistered workers

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by IDWFED published May 16, 2013 12:00 AM
National Social Security Fund (NSSF) is closing in on employers with tight plans to expand social security coverage to domestic workers. Barely two weeks after it issued a month’s amnesty for employers of domestic workers to comply with registration of staff and remit contributions, the Fund now plans a door-to-door inspection exercise.

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National Social Security Fund (NSSF) is closing in on employers with tight plans to expand social security coverage to domestic workers. Barely two weeks after it issued a month’s amnesty for employers of domestic workers to comply with registration of staff and remit contributions, the Fund now plans a door-to-door inspection exercise.

As part of its plans to enforce the law, residential houses will be visited to identify house helps, gardeners, herds boys and drivers who will not have been registered by May 31. “Following the Kenya Gazette Notice no 159 of October, 30, 2009 that makes it mandatory for all employers to register their employees with NSSF, we have extended an amnesty for all employers to register their employees before May 31,” NSSF Managing Trustee Tom Odongo has warned.

NSSF compliance officers will be deployed across the country to ensure the fund meets it target and bring on board domestic workers. The amnesty and inspection campaign is targeting to net more than three million unregistered workers over the next two weeks. “Ignorance of the law is no excuse and this means employers of domestic workers are required to register them with NSSF and remit contributions or risk legal action,” Odongo warned.

The campaign will see the number of active members rise significantly from current 1.5 million largely drawn from workers in the formal sector. He said officers scheduled to carry out the exercise, will have NSSF uniforms and staff identity cards to ease identification and ensure the smooth running of the whole exercise.

Further NSSF has also set up three toll free telephone numbers (020 2713009, 0202 2713010, 020 2713012,) to be used by workers wishing to verify their membership status or lodge complaints on noncompliance by their employers. Employers are expected to remit NSSF monthly contributions amounting to Sh400.

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More information:

  1. Kenya: NSSF Warns of Fines Over Domestic Workers' Dues | AllAfrica
  2. NSSF widens net to domestic employees | The Star

Source: The People

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