In June 2021 the Department of Employment and Labour’s Mandatory vaccine Directive was published enabling employers the opportunity to implement a mandatory vaccination policy within their workplace. One major reason which may lead employers to consider this type of...
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Covid Business Resources
Are your Covid-19 policies meaningless?
As pandemic fatigue grows, so does the responsibility to ensure that the protocols, policies and practises put in place to safeguard our employees [and indeed society at large] remain clearly defined, communicated to all, and are enforced. In a recent case an employee...
Vaccine roll-out programme
Through Business for South Africa (B4SA), Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) is working with the Government to increase the number of vaccination sites in the country as part of phases 2 and 3 of the vaccination programe. They are calling on companies which have sites...
Strategic return to work approach to Covid-19
Employees and employers alike, sighed a collective sigh of relief at the end of 2020 when businesses closed for year end. After a year which felt both long and short at the same time, taking time off to recovery was on the top of the list of things to do! This short...
WHAT ARE YOUR CURRENT COVID-19 OHS OBLIGATIONS?
On the 1st October 2020, Notice R.1031 was published in Government Gazette No. 43751, in terms of which the Minister of Employment and Labour issued Consolidated Directions on Occupational Health and Safety Measures in the workplace. It is noted that there are...
LEVEL 3 HEALTH AND SAFETY DIRECTIVE INTRODUCES CHANGES
On 04 June 2020, the Minister of Employment and Labour published amendments, by way of a consolidated Direction on Health and Safety in the Workplace which sets out additional obligations in respect of the safe opening and continuing operation of a workplace. This...
CABINET TO STUDY JUDGEMENT ON ALERT LEVEL 4 & ALERT LEVEL 3 REGULATIONS
Government has taken note of the judgement delivered by the Gauteng Division of the High Court today, 2 June 2020, declaring the Alert Level 4 and Alert Level 3 Lockdown regulations unconstitutional and invalid. The court suspended the declaration of invalidity for a...
President’s Message 24 May 2020
President Ramaphosa addresses the Nation - 24/05/2020
BUSA: Temporary Employer/ Employee Relief Scheme (TERS)
TERS CHANGES IN MAY There has been a change in the process for applying for the UIF TERS benefit for on behalf of employees from May, in terms of which employers have a new option. First, however, it appears that the UIF site is not yet ready to accommodate...
Understanding SARS relief measures for Small and Medium Businesses
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