THE National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) will approach the Constitutional Court early next year about proposals to implement mandatory Covid-19 cinations.
During a keynote address at the twenty-sixth Nedlac Summit, on December 7, Employment and Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi said the social partners agree with President Cyril Ramaphosa that mandatory vaccinations are necessary to ultimately do away with lockdown restrictions.
He pointed out that it has been a difficult two years since the start of the pandemic, with gross domestic product having contracted by more than 7% in 2020 and the labour market having shed one-million jobs.
The “pain” continues, in that the unemployment rate sits at 34.9% and the shadow of a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections with the Omicron variant looms.
“The pandemic placed a heavy responsibility not only on government but also Nedlac and its social partners. In such periods of economic, political and social crisis,
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