Covid-19 Business Watch
WATCH: Will the Coida amendment protect workers?
Michael Avery talks to a panel about SA's Compensation Fund and the Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act
As increasing numbers of employees return to the workplace with the easing of lockdown levels, cases of occupationally acquired Covid-19 are likely to rise again into winter and then persist until a vaccine becomes widely available. It is feared that the Compensation Fund, which has had a long and undistinguished history of inefficiency, maladministration and financial mismanagement, is going to buckle under the weight of claims.
The Compensation Fund is governed under the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act (Coida). In January, the parliamentary portfolio committee on employment and labour issued a public call for submissions on the proposed Coida Amendment Bill. The bill appears to be something of a curate’s egg — good in parts, bad in others. ..
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