Covid-19 vaccine might be made mandatory before returning to the office

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Covid-19 vaccine might be made mandatory before returning to the office
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TOP STORY: If companies follow all the guidelines, your boss could make it compulsory for you to get jab against Covid19. vaccine vaccinereadysa level3

Western Cape: IF companies follow all the guidelines, your boss could make it mandatory for you to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

The Department of Employment and Labour has set out guidelines that serve as a directive for employers to make it compulsory that staff get vaccinated. Getting vaccinated remains voluntary, but if an employer does a risk assessment at the office, staff could be forced to get the jab. She added: “I had a casual chat with our general manager and he said he has the power to say 'yes' or 'no' and 'I have the right to make it mandatory' and then I asked what if we don’t get vaccinated and the response was 'then you probably won’t have a job'.”

She emphasised employees could still object to getting vaccinated: “The guidelines recognise there must be a balancing act between competing rights to maintain business operations but for people to refuse to be vaccinated.” She added: “If someone was excluded from the workplace for whatever reason they would be suspended. So they wouldn’t be entitled to perform their duties and then the question arises whether that suspension is fair.

He added: “In terms of this framework agreement, it is confirmed that no worker will be victimised for declining to take the vaccine. We are the only union in the country who concluded such a framework agreement.”

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