TERS Has Been Extended: Who Benefits?

The extended benefits appear to offer some relief to employees who are precluded through no fault of their own from tendering their services.

Certain employees can now claim COVID-19 TERS benefits for the extended period of 27 June 2020 to 15 August 2020. These are employees who fall or who fell into one of the following categories of employees where their employer:

• is unable to make alternative arrangements in respect of vulnerable employees (employees with pre-existing comorbidities and/or employees over the age of 60);
• is not permitted to re-commence, either fully or partially, operations under the Disaster Management Regulations; and
• is unable to utilise the services of the employees, either fully or partially, due to operational requirements of the employer caused by compliance with the Disaster Management Regulations.