Employers must take measures to protect the health and safety of everyone in their workplace as some companies resume operations under stage four of the lockdown, employment and labour minister Thulas Nxesi said on Sunday.
Employers must take measures to protect the health and safety of everyone in their workplace as some companies resume operations under stage four of the lockdown, employment and labour minministerulas Nxesi said on Sunday.“Any employer who does not comply with the direction may be ordered to close business,” Nxesi said.
Nxesi, who was briefing the media on the partial return to workplaces on Monday, said he had issued a directive setting out measures that employers are required to take to prevent the transmission of Covid-19 in the workplace.Nxesi said the directive was in no way reducing existing obligations on employers in terms of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Nxesi said every employer must inform employees that if they have Covid-19 symptoms, they must not be at work and be granted paid sick leave or apply to the Covid-19 Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme. “The employer must provide employees with information concerning Covid-19 and how to prevent its transmission.
“They must report any diagnosis of Covid-19 at work to the department of health and the department of employment and labour.”
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