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News24 reports that a Cape Town domestic worker, dismissed after disclosing her HIV status, will be returning to work.
"I cannot wait to get back to work," Mavis Tambo reacted, adding that going back to work would be a little "awkward", but she was confident that everything would work out well. Last month, the mom of three was fired on the same day she told her employer she was HIV-positive. The 42-year-old woman approached the CCMA, which ruled that she had been unfairly dismissed. Her employer, however, had welcomed her back before the ruling was finalised. Tambo worked at a Brackenfell home for four months before informing the Carroll family about her HIV status. She made the decision to tell the family so that they could understand why she would be late for work at least once a month, to pick up her medication at the day hospital. Tambo said she understood her sacking to mean that the Carrolls likely felt she would infect them. Tambo appeared at the CCMA on 8 July, and last Monday the commission ruled in her favour. In the settlement, Tambo was reinstated with the same remuneration and new conditions include that she be given time off for counseling, and that she be allocated time to collect her medication at the clinic. Advocate Jackie Nagtegaal of ‘Law For All’ explained that in SA employees do not have to disclose their status to employers. But, if they decide to do so, the employer may not discriminate or victimise them in any way.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lisalee Solomons & Adiel Ismail at News24
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