Living With COVID | The Implications for Staff, Safety and the Workplace

Additionally, certain support/services will be withdrawn. 

From 24 March, the COVID-19 provisions within the Statutory Sick Pay and Employment and Support Allowance regulations will be removed. 

From 1 April, the government will no longer provide free universal symptomatic and asymptomatic testing for the general public in England.

It will also consolidate guidance to the public and businesses in line with public health advice, and, perhaps most alarmingly for employers and their staff, remove the health and safety requirement for every employer to explicitly consider COVID-19 in their risk assessments.

With the raft of advice and guidance created and adhered to for two years now being torn up almost overnight, there is confusion and panic among employers and employees about what happens next. 

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As part of our continued commitment to helping organisations understand and adapt to COVID-related changes at every stage of the pandemic, WorkNest’s Director of Legal Services, James Tamm, and Director of Health & Safety, Nick Wilson, are hosting a free webinar to offer clarity, guidance and peace of mind.

During this informative 45-minute session, our experts will unpick the government’s living with COVID plan in layman’s terms, offer advice on the challenges this might create for employers, and answer some of the pertinent questions you may have now:

• What are the best-practice infection prevention measures for the workplace now?
• What should employers do around testing in the workplace?
• What if there’s another variant?
• What is employers’ duty of care to their employees now that restrictions have ended?
  
• What’s the position regarding statutory sick pay for COVID-positive employees?
• Can I still expect employees to self-isolate now that it’s no longer a legal requirement?
• Do my employees still need to socially distance in the workplace?
• How do I ease staff’s concerns and manage hesitancy around the return to work?