Self-isolation

Employers have been urged to be cautious and to remember their legal duty to keep employees safe at work as...

Ending of Covid isolation rules could see businesses struggling to manage duty of care.

There will be an additional bank holiday in 2022 to celebrate the Queen’s platinum jubilee.
Many employees will be entitled...

Darren Newman explains the potential risks reducing sick pay for the unvaccinated in terms of contractual entitlements, discrimination and employee relations.

Care home operators have criticised the government’s decision to remove the legal requirement on people with Covid-19 to self-isolate.

As some employers reveal that they have removed contractual sick pay from unvaccinated staff, Joanne Moseley examines the legal risks...

A pet food retailer unfairly dismissed an employee after she raised concerns about health and safety and blew the whistle...

Legal warning over staff from certain ethnic or religious backgrounds as well as those who are pregnant.

Companies start to reduce sick pay for those who are unvaccinated who have to self-isolate.

Several employers including Ikea and Wessex Water have cut sick pay for unvaccinated employees who are told to self-isolate after...

A leaked memo warns that the low paid could be disadvantaged by new regime, as they still need to get a PCR test to claim financial support.

Hospital worker whose absence was treated as unauthorised while he awaited his wife's test result has suceeded in part of his tribunal claim.

More than 90 care home operators have declared a staffing emergency, as thousands of care workers are forced to self-isolate...

Public services including healthcare, transport and education are coming under strain amid crippling Covid-19 absence rates.
Health leaders have indicated...

Questions on employees’ Covid vaccination status, self-isolation and testing continued to be popular during December.
Employers were also asking various...