{"id":556186,"date":"2022-02-08T07:22:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T05:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=556186"},"modified":"2022-02-08T07:22:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T05:22:30","slug":"investec-tells-staff-in-south-africa-to-get-vaccinated-or-pay-for-their-own-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/556186\/investec-tells-staff-in-south-africa-to-get-vaccinated-or-pay-for-their-own-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Investec tells staff in South Africa to get vaccinated &#8211; or pay for their own tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investec has asked its employees in South Africa to get vaccinated or subject themselves to weekly tests as the bank\u2019s staff returns to office.<\/p>\n<p>Investec will require its employees to work at least three days a week from office. If workers aren\u2019t vaccinated they will have to get tested &#8211; at their own expense &#8211; every week to access the workplace, events and client meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe, at this time, that the vaccine is the best mitigation against the virus, and that it ensures a safe environment for all,\u201d Head of People for Investec South Africa, Lesley-Anne Gatter said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Many companies in Africa\u2019s most-industrialized nation are mandating workers get vaccinated to return to office. South Africa-based MTN Group, the continent\u2019s largest wireless carrier, last month said that it\u2019s prepared to fire employees that do not comply.<\/p>\n<p>Less than half of the nation\u2019s adult population are fully inoculated.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/555676\/updated-lockdown-restrictions-are-causing-major-headaches-for-businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Updated lockdown restrictions are causing major headaches for businesses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investec has asked its employees in South Africa to get vaccinated or subject themselves to weekly tests as the bank\u2019s staff returns to office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":492431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26,1498],"class_list":["post-556186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-investec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556190,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556186\/revisions\/556190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}