Changes affecting your employment including sickness, reduced hours and your rights when you return to work
Living with COVID
- The remaining domestic restrictions in England will be removed. The legal requirement to self-isolate ends. Until 1 April, we still advise people who test positive to stay at home. Adults and children who test positive are advised to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for at least five full days and then continue to follow the guidance until they have received two negative test results on consecutive days
- From April, the Government will update guidance setting out the ongoing steps that people with COVID-19 should take to be careful and considerate of others, similar to advice on other infectious diseases. This will align with testing changes
- Self-isolation support payments, national funding for practical support and the medicine delivery service will no longer be available
- Routine contact tracing ends, including venue check-ins on the NHS COVID-19 app
Prime Minister sets out plan for living with COVID - GOV.UK
If you're off sick, told to stay home because of coronavirus or you need to look after dependents
- Different employers may have different rules, so please speak to your employer and check out the guidance below
- If employees need to provide evidence to their employer that they need to stay at home due to coronavirus, they will be able to get this online instead of having to get a fit note from their doctor. For more information on how to obtain this note go to https://111.nhs.uk/isolation-note/
- For information on fit notes - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-fit-note-a-guide-for-patients-and-employees
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ (Public Health England).
When to stay at home if you have coronavirus (COVID-19) and what to do - NHS
Test and Trace Support Payments
Check eligibility and how to apply on our page.
The rules for workers who have not taken all their statutory annual leave entitlement due to Covid-19, being able to carry it over will come to an end in 2022. Please check the position with your employers.
Holiday entitlement: Holiday and leave during coronavirus (COVID-19) - Acas
Going into the workplace
Guidance has been published to assist employers, businesses and their staff in staying open safely during coronavirus.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-employers-and-businesses-about-covid-19
Benefit Cap
If you are capped seek advice immediately.
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