[ADVOCACY] SERI co-host a webinar on engaging courts to further worker rights (12 May 2021).
On 5 May, SERI, Solidarity Center and Women’s Legal Centre co-hosted a webinar on worker’s rights, intersectionality and accessing justice through litigation, entitled, “Engaging Courts to Further Worker Rights: Mahlangu and Beyond”.
The webinar discussed the recent milestone judgment of the Constitutional Court of South Africa,
Mahlangu v the Minister of Labour, in which the Court handed down an order declaring the constitutional invalidity of section 1(xix)(v) of the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act (COIDA) which excluded domestic workers employed in private households from the definition of "employee", precluding them from claiming from the Compensation Fund for work-related injuries, illnesses or death. The Court also ruled that the order of constitutional invalidity is to have immediate and retrospective effect from 27 April 1994.