Comment deadline for the draft determination is extended to 28 February 2023 relating to community health workers wages and conditions investigation. Basic conditions of employment is aiming to establish a sectoral determination prescribing minimum wages and conditions of employment.
An employer is defined as any government department, implementing agency, private employer or contractor that hires workers to work in a Community Health Worker Programme (CHWP).
The regulation requires that employers adhere to the following when employing workers in CHWP:
- Register workers with the Department of Health as Community Health Workers
- Provide training as necessary and that training must be recorded in the employment records
- Adhere to sector specific minimum conditions of employment including minimum rates of remunerations
- Prohibit or regulate task-based work, piecework, home and contract work
- Adhere to minimum standards for housing and sanitation for employees who reside on their employer’s premises
- Regulate payment of travelling and other work-related allowances.
Written representations can be submitted by 28 February 2023 to the Directorate of the National Minimum Wage Commission: Employment Standards, Department of Labour, Private Bag X117, Pretoria, 0001 or be sent to SDinvestigations@labour.gov.za.
You can read the government notice issued by the Department of Employment and Labour here.
