One of South Africa’s largest banking groups, Standard Bank, has done away with its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for its employees. Standard Bank announced that it had withdrawn the mandatory vaccination policy on Friday, and explained the decision was due to its already 95% vaccination rate across employees and changes in national COVID regulations. Standard Bank intends on re-hiring workers fired for refusing to comply with its mandatory #COVID19 vaccination policy, which it's now scrapped. The bank withdrew its vaccination policy on Monday after banking union Sasbo was set to challenge it. Now with the scrapping of the policy and the re-hiring of fired employees Standard Bank may be able to avoid any legal action from the union.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 15, 2022 19:59 UTC