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Your file is yours.
Verification belongs to the worker. The file is issued in your name. You can share it, revoke access at any time, and take it with you if you leave the platform.
- Worker-owned record
- Portable across employers
Chapter 11 · For Workers
Your record. Your file. Your career.
Hustla verification belongs to you — not the agency, not the employer. You carry it wherever you work, and you can revoke it anytime.
Chapter 11.01 · The worker problem
Domestic and general workers in South Africa lose an average of R 3,400 per year to fraudulent or withheld references that prevent them from finding new work.
Why workers choose Hustla
Your value as a worker is built over years — through early mornings, through families you have kept safe, through floors you have kept clean. None of that is on paper. A phone call to an old employer, who may or may not pick up, is not a record. It is a favour.
Hustla turns your work history into a portable, verified record that any employer on the platform can request, and that you can take with you to any future job — on or off Hustla.
— Hustla worker brief | Durban, July 2024
Chapter 11.02 · How it works for workers
Submit once. Carry it forever.
The verification process takes under ten minutes to start and under 48 hours to complete. Once your file is issued, it belongs to you — you control who sees it and for how long.
You download the Hustla app, upload your South African ID, and sign the consent form. That triggers the five-point check: biometric match against DHA, criminal record from SAPS, address confirmation, work-permit status if applicable, and contact with two of your previous employers for references.
Once all five checks clear, you receive a signed file in your name. That file is your verification — a timestamped, PSiRA-audited document that any employer on the platform can request with your permission. You approve each request individually.
Your file is yours permanently. Hustla does not sell it, does not share it without your consent, and does not revoke it when you stop using the platform. Read our full data ownership policy.
Your verification
- Time to start
- Under 10 minutes
- Time to receive
- Under 48 hours
- File owner
- You
- Consent
- Required per employer
- Audited by
- PSiRA (quarterly)
- POPIA
- Fully compliant
- Cost
- Free for workers
Chapter 11.03 · What we stand for
Three rights every worker deserves.
Hustla was built with workers at the centre. These are not policies — they are the principles the platform was designed around.
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Your consent, every time.
No employer sees your file without your explicit approval. Each request is a separate consent decision — there is no blanket visibility setting.
- Per-employer consent
- Revocable at any time
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Your work, on record.
A glowing reference should not depend on whether your previous employer picks up the phone. We contact them, record the response, and put it in writing — permanently.
- References on file
- Signed by employer of record
Chapter 11.05 · Worker volume
The platform is growing. So is your value.
Figures from the Hustla worker ledger. Updated monthly.
01 / 03Workers verified
0
Verified workers across all categories and cities.
02 / 03Weekly hiring rate
340+
New employer-worker connections made each week on average.
03 / 03Avg. first hire time
4.1d
Average time from verification to first confirmed placement.
Chapter 11.06 · Get verified
Start your verification in under ten minutes.
It costs nothing. It takes ten minutes to start and 48 hours to complete. And at the end, you have a signed, portable record that you own — and that no employer can take from you.
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