Morning Review host Lester Kiewit chats to labour law specialist Lauren Salt.

• Employment law specialist Lauren Salt says the new regulations on Covid-19 isolation will create some challenges in the workplace

• Government has announced that people don't have to isolate if they test positive for Covid-19 but have no symptoms

Employment law attorney Lauren Salt says updated occupational health and safety guidelines are needed to deal with the "conundrum" created by the government's new Covid-19 isolation rules.

On Monday, government announced that it relaxed the rules for Covid-19 isolation based on the trajectory of the pandemic and the levels of vaccination in South Africa.

Under the adjusted Level 1 regulations, people do not have to isolate if they test positive for Covid-19 but are asymptomatic.

Salt, who's an executive in ENSafrica's employment department, says the new isolation rules are not in line with existing directives around Covid-19 in the workplace.

In June last year, the government issued the Consolidated Direction on Occupational Health and Safety in Certain Workplaces which deals with Covid-19 isolation, reporting positive cases in the workplace, and mandatory vaccination policies.

Salt says these directives are now outdated, in light of the new isolation regulations.

She says the Department of Labour and Department of Health will have to develop updated directives on how to manage asymptomatic employees in the workplace.

According to Salt, current...

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