Understanding Your Contract and Payslip

Your employment contract and your payslip are two of the most important documents in your working life. The contract sets out what you agreed to and what your employer must give you. The payslip shows what you earned, what was taken off and why. Yet many young workers sign contracts they have not read and never check their payslips, and only find out about a problem when money is missing. This course explains the main types of contract, how to read one and what it must include, probation, notice periods, working hours and overtime, annual, sick, family responsibility and parental leave, how to read and check a payslip line by line, how PAYE tax and UIF work, what other deductions are allowed and what your rights are if something is wrong. All of it is based on South African law, including the Basic Conditions of Employment Act. The course is fully online and self-paced. Each lesson has a short activity in your workbook. You finish with a practical task in which you check a real-looking contract and payslip, and a final assessment, and you receive a MetaCo Certificate of Completion that you can add to your CV.