Testing

Free Covid lateral flow testing is “vital” for NHS staff according to health leaders concerned by rising coronavirus cases and increases to the cost of living.

There is no longer a legal requirement in England to self-isolate after testing positive for coronavirus.
The removal of the...

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.

The US Supreme Court has blocked the government from imposing vaccine mandates that would have covered more than 80 million employees.

The decision to dismiss a cleaner who went to work with Covid-19 was unfair because his employer did not follow a fair process, an employment tribunal has found.

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.

Workers in key industries will be offered daily lateral flow tests as infections grow.

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...

People infected with Covid in England can now come out of self-isolation after seven rather than 10 days according to...

Businesses should expect staff shortages because of a surge Omicron cases, ministers have been told.
According to cabinet sources, prime...

Employees in England have been advised to work from home from today (13 December) as the government triggers its plan...

With the arrival of the Omicron variant making the pandemic recovery more complicated, and candidates actively seeking organisations that can...