NIGHT FALL

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  • Legal conversations: Employer Roles on Mandatory Vaccination Roll-outs

    Employers considering putting a mandatory Covid-19 vaccination policy in place need to take several factors into account, including appropriate steps if an employee refuses

    ​​Employers are currently faced with the difficult question whether to make vaccination mandatory for their employees. Obviously, employers want to create and maintain a safe and heal​thy working environment for their employees, including taking measures to protect them from contracting and/or spreading Covid-19.  An additional measure could be to ensure employees receive the Covid-19 vaccine, once they are eligible, as determined by the South African Government.

    Guest on the line:  Professional Support Lawyer at Webber Wentzel

    11 min
  • Closet conversations: What is Chlamydia?

    Chlamydia is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections (STDs), particularly amongst teenagers and young adults. It’s caused by bacteria and is spread by having unprotected sex — vaginal, anal, or oral — with someone who is infected, even though they may not have any symptoms.

     

    Guest: Dr Anthony Smith –family physician and medical sexologist.

    48 min
  • Health conversations:  The impact of the OHSA on creating safer spaces for the mobility impaired

    The Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act contained in the OHS Bill 2020 has recently been released by Cabinet for comment. The proposed changes and new penalties have an impact on building owners and managing agents on how they can be compliant.

    The proposed OHSA Amendment, which marks as the first modification since it was published in 1993, has a significant impact not only on employers but on how building owners and managing agents create a safer environment for people with mobility impairments.

    Guest: Gavin Glass, CEO of Evac+Chair South Africa

    27 min
  • Social conversations: Unpaid care work still falls on women: seven steps that could shift the balance

    A recently released report highlights how societies could move closer to a more gender equal distribution of care work in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

    One of the key findings of the report is that – at the current rate of change – it will take another 92 years before unpaid care work is shared equally between men and women. Globally, women do three times as much of the unpaid care work as men do, and make up over 70% of the paid care workforce.

    Guest: Wessel van den Berg is the research manager at Sonke Gender Justice and contributed to the State of the World’s Fathers report

    14 min
  • Closet conversations: Hematospermia

    Seeing blood in the semen can make a man anxious. Fortunately, it doesn't always signal a major medical problem. For men younger than 40 with no related symptoms and no risk factors for underlying medical conditions, blood in semen often disappears on its own.

    Guest: Durban-based general practitioner -Dr Prithi Ramlachan

    40 min
  • Social conversations: South African graduates may be mostly employed, but skills and jobs often don’t match

    Labour markets around the world are undergoing significant changes – particularly in non-tech sectors. South Africa hasn’t been spared from this wave of change. The country has high unemployment rates by global standards, both at national level and among the youth.

    According to some theories, higher education leads to better labour market outcomes and improves future income through better career paths. But these theories have been criticised in countries with high rates of unemployment, where even graduates often struggle to find employment. It seems higher education is no longer a guarantee of a job.

    Guest :  Dr Ngk Precious Mncayi - Programme Leader Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of North West

    19 min
  • Social conversation – (The book) Legacy: Greatness beyond the Grave

    In this brilliantly written book, Legacy: Greatness Beyond The Grave,  the author, motivational speaker and businessman, Sicelo Nkosi, skilfully unpacks the dynamics of building a legacy and how different inheritance is. This is a book that unpacks how we view issues of inheritance compared to races and it also talks about practical tools we can use to gain true freedom which is “owning things from one generation to another” now that is legacy when one’s kids won’t have to start from scratch because his or her parents didn’t make provision for the future.

    Guest: the author, motivational speaker and businessman, Sicelo Nkosi

    27 min

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