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Cardiovascular disease risk factors, musculoskeletal health, physical fitness, and occupational performance in firefighters: A narrative review
(Hindawi Journal of Environmental and Public Health, 2022)
Introduction. Firefighting is a strenuous occupation that requires firefighters to be in peak physical condition. However, many firefighters have risk factors for cardiovascular disease, impaired musculoskeletal health, ...
Extra-oral suction
(MDPI, 2023)
Oral health care workers (OHCW) are exposed to pathogenic microorganisms during
dental aerosol-generating procedures. Technologies aimed at the reduction of aerosol, droplets
and splatter are essential. This in vivo study ...
High heels in the workplace – a health hazard or a symbol of femininity? Observations on appearance regulation in Mofokeng v CCMA & Others
(Juta & Company, Ltd, 2022)
For over thirty years the ILJ has remained the premier South African labour law reporter. This seminal monthly journal covers judgments and awards handed down by the Labour Court, Labour Appeals Court, the CCMA, Bargaining ...
Discrimination on an ‘arbitrary ground’ and the right of access to justice
(Jute, 2021)
In Naidoo & others v Parliament of the Republic of SA the Labour Appeal Court interpreted ‘arbitrary ground’ in s 6(1) of the Employment Equity Act by rejecting a ‘broad’ interpretation (ie the grammatical meaning of the ...
The employment equity amendment bill B14B – 2020: innovating towards equity or kicking the can down the road?
(Juta & Company, Ltd., 2020)
The Employment Equity Amendment Bill introduces significant changes to the regulatory framework for affirmative action by, among other amendments, shifting the responsibility for determining employment equity targets from ...
Protecting platform workers: options and challenges
(Jute, 2022)
The use of digital platforms as a means of organising work and creating new work opportunities (‘platform work’) is on the increase in developing as well as developed countries. The article starts from three widely-accepted ...
Genuine autonomous work: toward a tailor-made social protection
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
This chapter aims at providing a conceptual framework to social protection of genuine autonomous work, with a reference to solopreneurs, analyzing socioeconomic risks and needs they are facing and that may differ from the ...
Nigeria’s political, economic, and social dynamics in a pandemic era
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
This chapter examines the impact of Nigeria’s containment and mitigation strategies established at the outbreak of the pandemic in the country. The chapter asserts that government intervention reflected a holistic approach ...
Workers, platforms and the state: the struggle over digital labour platform regulation
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021)
This chapter discusses the arguments made by digital labour platforms - and their supporters - in favour of self-regulation. Against their claims that platform self-regulation is a preferable alternative to state intervention, ...
Facilitating decent work: the case of domestic workers in Nigeria
(Jute, 2022)
A decade after the first international standard regulating domestic work was introduced decent work remains a challenge for domestic workers in Nigeria. Within the framework of ILO’s Convention on Domestic Workers 189 of ...