South African rulings uphold rights of HIV+ employees
Posted: 30 March, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentMany thanks to Godfrey Kangaude, LL.M. (UFS), LL.M. (UCLA), now an LL.D. candidate with the University of Pretoria and Executive Director of Nyale Institute for Sexual and Reproductive Health Governance in Malawi, for composing and/or editing summaries of 54 recent African court decisions for Legal Grounds III: Reproductive and Sexual Rights in Sub-Saharan African Courts, published in 2017 by Pretoria University Law Press (PULP). All three volumes in the series are freely available in print or electronic form.
Two of the court decisions summarized in Legal Grounds III clearly upheld the rights of HIV-positive persons against discrimination, including unjust dismissal, and exclusion from certain job opportunities.
Gary Shane Allpass v Mooikloof Estates (Pty) Ltd. [2011], Case No. JS178/09, a Labour Court of South Africa upheld the rights to equality and non-discrimination of HIV-positive persons in the workplace. The Court ruled that a horse-riding instructor’s dismissal from employment for HIV-positivity was…
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