You would legitimately ask where the costs for your carer is allocated. There are various factors to consider.

Carer Employment Logistics

Carer Salary:

Carers are paid the National Minimum Wage per hour.

Labour Law protects our workers with more, in addition to their wages.

The employer must keep working hours to 45 hours a week or 195 hours a month. This is worked out scientifically to get optimum service from your workers. It is unfair treatment towards the carer and their patient when this rule is disregarded.

If a carer is privately employed to do live-in work with just one or two days off in the week, they are working too many hours. Their hours should be worked out on 16 hours work a day and on call through the night.

Intensive care, where the patient needs full day and night care, 24 hours, it only makes sense to have 2 carers alternating the dayshifts and 2 carers alternating night shifts.

Carers have family and homes of their own to run and they need time to manage their own lives.

Working hours:

Carers accumulate 1 day sick leave payout every 26 days worked. This is just a few Rands added to their daily service. Their leave accumulates every 17 days and also added to their daily service. This is why, when they take sick leave or leave the company can have a standby carer to work in their place as these costs are covered. It doesn’t add to your invoice.

Sick leave and leave requests:

Travel costs:

Travel costs of R80 per shift is added to their wages. Carers are usually chosen for their easy access to the patient to keep the travel costs low. Some areas are difficult to travel to only because there are no taxi or bus services in that area and here we make special arrangements with Uber from a closer point.

Unemployment Insurance Fund and Skills Development Levy:

The company pays the carers UIF and SDL costs to SARS.