Law Feature 1: New strict Covid rules for SA companies

Lockdown regulations may have eased, but government has introduced more stringent regulations for workplaces. New rules have been gazetted to prevent and combat the spread of Covid-19 in South African workplaces.Michael Avery speaks to Nerine Kahn, co-founder of Employment Relations Exchange, about some of the new requirements which include the stipulation that an employer who employs more than 50 employees must submit a record of its risk assessment, as well as a Covid-19 health and safety policy, to the Department of Employment and Labour by 22 October. This new direction previously only applied to employers with more than 500 employees, says Kahn.