BusinessLive reports that an urgent application by trade union Solidarity challenging a Pretoria-based company’s policy on mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations was struck off the Johannesburg Labour Court roll on Thursday.
The union had approached the court on an urgent basis on behalf of members Wynand Coertzen and Stephanie Christensen, who are employed by human and industrial relations solutions provider Seesa as software developer and legal adviser respectively. Solidarity had wanted the court to issue an order declaring unlawful the refusal by Seesa to allow Coertzen and Christensen to continue with their duties. Other relief sought was for the court to declare the company’s mandatory vaccination policy and admission policy unlawful and to prevent Seesa from starting a retrenchment process against Coertzen until it had complied with “a lawful procedure”. The company’s policy on mandatory vaccinations states that due to operational needs and occupational health and safety obligations “it concluded that vaccination will be mandatory for all employees”. Labour Court acting judge Tameshnie Deane struck the urgent application from the roll. Solidary head of communication Morne Malan said that only the urgency of the application was dealt with by the court, but did not say when the matter would be heard “as we are still waiting for confirmation from the court”.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane at BusinessLive
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