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Study Unit 1C - Leereenheid 1C
Study Unit 1C - Leereenheid 1C
Leereenheid 1C
IOPS 121
Providing a safe and healthy working
environment
Voorsiening van ‘n veilige en gesonde
werksomgewing
See study guide for Discuss the moral and economic costs of AIDS;
content of this study
unit
Discuss the impact of AIDS in the workplace;
Sien studiegids vir Discuss the timing and cost of AIDS;
inhoud van hierdie
leereenheid Discuss the impact of AIDS on households;
Discuss the impact of AIDS on children; and
Discuss AIDS and the law.
Employees will require time off to take care of sick family members.
People will want time off to attend funerals of family members and colleagues.
Productivity will decline because of time off, but employees will also be less healthy,
which will have a major impact on the medical aid schemes of companies.
The supply and cost of labour will be affected
Vermindering van
Afname in huishoudelike Verkoop van huishoudelike
huishoudelike besteding aan
spaargeld. bates.
onderwys.
Toename in huishoudelike
skuld of lenings
The impact of
VIGS/AIDS on children
Loss of educational opportunities for children, as affected household would withdraw
children from schools to assist in caring for the sick and stop paying school fees.
Children loose one or both parents due to death and becomes orphaned.
en die
arbeidspraktyk uit.
• ‘n Dokter of gesondheidsorgwerker wat ‘n werkgewer
oor ‘n werknemer se MIV-status inlig sonder die
werknemer se toestemming, tree in stryd met die wet op
wet
en skend die werknemer se reg op vertroulikheid.
• ‘n Werknemer mag nie daarop aandring om te weet of
die oorsaak van die siekte MIV- besmetting is nie.
• ‘n Werkgewer mag nie weier om jou in diens te neem
omdat jy MIV-positief is nie.
• ‘n Werkgewer mag jou nie afdank omdat jy MIV-positief
is nie.
• ‘n Werkgewer mag jou nie afdank omdat jy MIV-positief
is nie, selfs al wil ander werknemers nie saam met jou
werk nie