by Anna Denton | Sep 7, 2020 | Covid-19, Return to work, Shielding
Our latest video is available to view on the Refreshing Law YouTube channel – please click here to watch Anna discussing the various issues and guidance with regards to employees who are shielding because of COVID-19. Refreshing Law Ltd – 13 August...
by Anna Denton | Jul 29, 2020 | Covid-19, Quarantine
Employees returning from overseas will, in the majority of cases, no longer be required to self-isolate for 14 days since the rules changed on 10 July 2020 and air bridges were created. However, the 14 day quarantine period still applies to travel from countries not...
by Anna Denton | Jul 21, 2020 | Covid-19, Statutory Sick Pay
On 6 July 2020, the 1982 Statutory Sick Pay (General) Regulations were further amended for Covid-19. Summary Where an individual self isolates because they are in a “linked household” (sometimes called a “bubble”), and someone in that other...
by Anna Denton | Jun 18, 2020 | BAME workers, Covid-19, return to work
A few weeks ago, early in the Covid-19 crisis before the evidence in relation to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people being recorded by the ONS as four times more likely to die from a Covid-19 related cause than white people, I was on a webinar where a...
by Anna Denton | Jun 9, 2020 | Covid-19, Health and Safety, PPE
This is one in a series of Blogs around Covid-19 issues. We have recently prepared a Blog in relation to pregnancy and also a Video Blog discussing returning to work. The Government has been at pains to say in its guidance that employers aren’t required to provide...