About registering with the Compensation Fund

If you are an employer, you must register with the Compensation Fund to cover your workers against occupational diseases, injuries and death.

The fund pays compensation to permanent and casual workers, trainees and apprentices who are injured or contract a disease in the course of their work and lose income as a result.

The fund covers an employee who is:

• permanently employed
• a domestic worker in a boarding house
• an apprentice or trainee farm worker and
• a worker paid by a labour agency.
  

It is your responsibility as an employer to register with the Compensation Fund once you appoint one or more employees. If you fail to register with the Compensation Fund, you shall be guilty of an offence.

Note: This excludes domestic workers employed by households and anyone receiving military training.

What you should do

• Complete form (W.AS.2).
• You must bring certified copies of the following: 
• registration certificate from the Companies and Intellectual Property Registration Office (CIPRO) if you are a company or closed corporation
• identity document, if you are sole owners of the business
• non-profit organisation certificate
• the Compensation Fund will create a unique reference number for you.
  

Please note: The assessment period runs from 1 March to end of February each year.

Timeframe

The Compensation Fund takes about 21 working days to process applications.

How much does it cost

The service is free.

Forms to complete

Registration of employer with the Compensation Fund, ID: W.AS.2

Who to contact