#5 COVID-19 in South Africa: Work & the “new normal”

I spoke with Jahni de Villiers (https://twitter.com/JahniDeVilliers) about work & the “new normal” under COVID-19.

Jahni is the Head of Labour and Development at Agri SA. Before joining Agri SA, she was a union organiser at Solidarity for 12 years and served as sector-head of the union’s branches at all the major commercial banks, Armscor, the Agricultural Research Council and universities.

She has an LLB degree from Nelson Mandela University and an LLM degree, specialising in labour law, form the University of South Africa (UNISA).

She represents organised business on the following structures:

• National Minimum Wage Commission.
• Nedlac Development chamber.
• Various task teams at Nedlac, including the national minimum wage task team and the comprehensive social security task team.
• Member of the Jobs summit sub-committee on Public Sector Programmes, Labour Market Reform and Anti-corruption initiatives.
• Represents Agri SA as a member of the AgriBEE Charter Council.
• Completed the AOTS Employee Relations and Human Resources Management training program in Tokyo, Japan in March 2018.

Useful resource: Return2Work Initiative - https://www.return2work.co.za/

“The Return2Work Initiative is facilitating collaboration between government and business to provide tools and guidelines to enable sectors to expedite a safe, effective and structured return2work plan.”