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Fin24 reports that organised business anticipates that employers will be legally challenged for implementing mandatory vaccination policies and so Business Unity SA (Busa) is preparing an application for a declaratory order on mandatory vaccinations.
Busa is still consulting with its legal team and senior counsel on the matter. A declaratory order would give businesses "confidence" that if they did apply a mandatory vaccination policy it would be within the context of the law, explained Cas Coovadia, CEO of Busa. "'Our legal advisers are looking at cases that might come to court, where businesses [which have] applied mandatory vaccination are being challenged … If we can use some of those cases and throw our weight behind those and get legal clarity, then we will do so. The intention is to get legal clarity as soon as possible," said Coovadia. He argued that mandatory vaccination was part of employers' responsibilities to ensure a safe workplace and noted that in workplaces where vaccines were mandatory, there had been an increase in vaccination uptake. Coovadia reported that vaccination rates at Discovery, the first SA corporate to announce a mandatory vaccine policy for employees, had increased to about 94%, having been about 74% ahead of the company’s policy announcement.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lameez Omarjee at Fin24
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