The SA Domestic Service and Allied Workers’ Union, the United Domestic Workers of SA, and informal worker organisations said they had launched an online petition addressing all aspects pertaining to the recognition of domestic workers as full employees who deserve social protection under the Compensation for Occupational Injury and Disease Act, 130 of 1993 .
“The action by the Department of Employment and Labour to exclude domestic workers from claiming compensation for work-related Covid-19 infections comes against the background of North Gauteng High Court’s judgment in May 2019 which declared the exclusion of domestic workers from provisions of Coida, 130 of 1993 as unconstitutional,” the unions said.
“While these legislative and judicial processes take their course, the Covid-19 pandemic has interceded. Domestic workers’ continued exclusion from compensation under Coida now prevents them from claiming compensation during the current Covid-19 pandemic,” said the unions.
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