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Mandatory vaccine firings - NEASA CEO says corporates like Standard Bank, Discovery "fighting a dead cause"

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NEASA's combative CEO Gerhard Papenfus comes out with all guns firing in this feisty conversation on Standard Bank's refusal to back down on its mandatory Covid vaccine policy - an approach which has seen it locking horns with the banking trade union. SASBO has demanded the bank drops its policy, and re-instate 40 fired staff and numerous others who were suspended for refusing to have a Covid vaccine. Papenfus, whose organisation represents employers, blames another company still applying mandatory vaccines, healthcare company Discovery, as the instigator of needless labour friction on what he says has become "a dead issue". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11 Jul 2022 7AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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