The new rules include reaffirming employers’ rights to introduce vaccine mandates and tightening the grounds on which employees may refuse to get jabbed
Employment and labour minister Thulas Nxesi. File photo: BUSINESS DAY/FREDDY MAVUNDA
The development is an important part of the government’s efforts to ensure there is a coherent legislative framework in place to help manage the coronavirus pandemic when it ends the national state of disaster, brought into effect two years ago. The government is under growing pressure to end the state of disaster, as it has been used to implement sweeping restrictions that have not been subject to parliamentary oversight.
“These regulations are trying to deal with the arguments that have come up in recent CCMA cases,” she said.
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