Cosatu challenge to workplace vaccination may be first salvo in a broader war
Labour federation says it favours vaccination but can’t support the dismissal of any workers for non-compliance
12 July 2022 - 12:01
UPDATED 12 July 2022 - 23:04
Cosatu plans to challenge mandatory Covid-19 vaccination at a “national, policy level” and wants workers who have been dismissed for noncompliance to be reinstated.
Matthew Parks, Cosatu’s parliamentary co-ordinator, told Business Day that while the labour federation supports vaccination against Covid-19, it cannot support the dismissal of workers in a country of 60-million people where only about 14.9-million have jobs...
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