UK employers should pay wages of those asked to isolate by COVID-19 trace system
Employers should pay the wages of anyone told to stay at home by
England's COVID-19 test and trace system, British health minister Matt
Hancock said on Thursday.To get more news about WikiFX, you can visit wikifx official website.
The service is aimed at allowing the loosening of lockdown
measures for most of the population. From Thursday, contacts of those
who test positive will be instructed to isolate for 14 days, even if
they have no symptoms.
Asked during an interview on Sky News if employers were being
asked to step in and pay people's wages while they isolate, Hancock
said: “Yes.”
“If you are instructed by the NHS, for public health reasons, to
stay at home then that is the equivalent in employment law to being ill
and it is very important that employers are flexible about this,” he
said.
Hancock also said an accompanying tracing app, that is key to
finding anonymous contacts, is ready but is not being brought in yet.
