Businesses with more than 100 employees, working together in a group in the same floor space, must where possible, make provision for minimising the number of employees at the workplace at any given time, through rotation, staggered working hours, shift systems, remote working arrangements or similar measures, in order to achieve social distancing and to limit congestion in public transport and at the workplace. The relevant health protocols and social distancing measures for persons employed...

Due to the impact of COVID-19, many employers found themselves in financial distress and as such, had no alternative but to implement retrenchments to reduce personnel for the business to survive. If the circumstances are of such a nature that the business will most probably improve systematically as the levels of the national lockdown decreases and there is currently still workload to attend to, then the employer can rather implement a system of reduced working hours namely short time to...