Personnel Today, a very useful website for HR and employment law matters has published an article on what steps employers can take – click here to visit it.
There are also RSS feeds so you should have no reaosn not to be fully up-to-date!
Personnel Today, a very useful website for HR and employment law matters has published an article on what steps employers can take – click here to visit it.
There are also RSS feeds so you should have no reaosn not to be fully up-to-date!
Well, since I jumped on the Swine Flu bandwagon with my post last week, I thought I better stay there for a bit longer.
In that post I wondered just what precautions an employer could be expected to take to avoid the risk of being found liable to an employee for contracting swine flu at work (always assuming that it could be proven that the infection was picked up in the workplace). My view then (and now) is not much, beyond promoting good hygiene and not insisting on ill employees coming into the office to spread their germs. Business Link, the organisation for employers, has provided guidance on their website - click here to go to the site.
Thanks to Annabel Kaye of Irenicon (@AnnabelKaye) for bringing the article in MailOnline to my attention, via Twitter. The full article can be found at www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articles-1201371/Bosses-risk-lawsuits-staff-swine-flu . Apparently, according to the Mail, employers need to be getting worried about the risk of being sued by employees who catch swine flu from doing their jobs . The article quotes lawyers and other commentators who point out the risk of increased litigation.