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Here are some more participant questions from our Coronavirus webinar earlier this week. What do we do if one of our employees triggers self-isolation by going to a high-risk area despite FCO advice?  Can we stop him going? However attractive might be the prospect of Venice without the crowds, it must be unlikely that someone aware of the risk would go there (or any other high-risk area) without absolutely needing to. You cannot physically prevent your employee from going on holiday to a high-risk area, (assuming of course that he can still get there at all!). You can point him to the FCO website and make it clear that in these very unusual circumstances you would regard it as a breach of a reasonable management instruction if he goes nonetheless. You can and should tell him that if he does and is either then self-isolated or actually ill, no company sick pay will be paid. More constructively, given the disruption and possible costs of temporary cover, you might consider a contribu...

The big-picture information about Coronavirus being issued by the Government at present is all well and good, but it does not (in fairness, cannot) address the multitude of little spin-off questions arising for employers every day. We held a webinar on this earlier this week, with members of our Employment, Commercial, Data and Health & Safety teams reflecting the sheer breath of the likely impact of Covid-19 on working society. A large number of questions were submitted through the webinar portal-thingy – in the first of a series, here are some of them and our suggested responses. However, Boris’ speech yesterday reminds us that this is not just a business problem but also a human one, and on a potentially colossal scale. The law was not designed for these unprecedented times and so it will occasionally struggle to provide a convincing answer. Let us do what we can. Are you allowed to disclose employees’ medical information to protect others, for example, by telli...