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[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 th
Domestic workers need more time to claim for work injuries, says unions
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Cape Town - Unions for domestic workers and other civil society organisations said the deadline for the domestic workers to apply for retrospective claims, on injuries sustained at work, was unreasonably short.
The compensation commissioner advertised, in the Government Gazette, that the cut off date for the claims was November 20.
Domestic workers were included in the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act (COIDA), from November last year, in a judgment by the Constitutional Court. It also ruled that the order of constitutional validity was to have immediate and retrospective effect from April 27, 1994.
Calls for R350 Covid-19 grant to be made permanent and increased to R585
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Johannesburg - Pressue is mounting on the government not to terminate the R350 Covid-19 social relief of distress grant and instead turn it into a permanent basic income grant.
The #PayTheGrants campaign, spearheaded by various civic organisations including Black Sash and the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union, on Thursday announced protest action against the government’s intentions to terminate the grant.
While the grant was due to come to an end on Friday, Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu said she was waiting to hear from the Treasury to indicate if it could be extended.