The Department of Mineral Resources & Energy has gazetted guidelines intended to assist with implementing mine-specific codes of practice for managing health-related incapacity.
The guideline’s overarching objective is ‘to ensure procedural and substantive fairness with employment decisions in respect of all current employees with medical incapacity, and those qualifying as persons with disabilities under the 1998 Employment Equity Act’.
Sub-section 9(2) of the Mine Health & Safety Act, 1996, requires every mining employer to develop and implement a code of practice on any matter affecting the health and/or safety of employees. The guidelines may also be used when preparing these codes.
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch