This is according to a study conducted by the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Social Change and the Casual Workers’ Advice Office.The study also indicates that companies that are still operating are largely failing to provide basic or adequate health and safety services.The UJ’s Professor Carin Runciman says workers’ income will be severely affected.
Runciman says, “At 30 companies there was no PPE , 29 had not taken measures to ensure social distancing and 22 had not provided sanitizers. The report found of the 40 companies that seized operation only nine had applied for special UIF coved 19 temporary employee/employer relief scheme to assist workers, most employers are shifting the econ burden of the crisis on the workers forcing them to take paid or unpaid leave despite the Minister asking them not to do this.
So far, Africa accounts for just a fraction of total cases of the disease which has infected more than one million people worldwide, according to a Reuters tally. But African economies are already facing an impending global economic downturn, plummeting oil and commodity prices and an imploding tourism sector.
PresidencyZA CyrilRamaphosa JacksonMthembu_ can this be addressed please
Don't know about next month but if this is 'extended' might be unpaid
What can those workers do who are going through this phenomenon as they will not be paid
Covid19inSA
Because UIF is broken