Health & Safety Considerations of Returning to Work Safely - Update

Following Friday’s announcement of localised lockdown restrictions in three counties and the recorded upsurge in Covid-19 cases, Employers and Employees alike are quite rightly looking at the health and safety implications of their own workspace.

On Tuesday evening a meeting of the Cabinet took place where the Taoiseach advised of updates to the ‘green list’. While the original list featured 15 countries, following the review, five countries have since been removed.

Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, secured to extend the suspension of redundancy provisions as well as extension of Covid-19 Enhanced Illness Benefit.

The Workplace Relations Commission have issued an update in relation to services.

The Workplace Relations Commission last week issued an update on their services in consideration of the Government’s latest announcements.

Mindful of the latest Government announcements, the WRC has further postponed all Adjudication Hearings, Conciliation Meetings, Face to Face Mediations and cancelled all on-site Inspections until after Sunday 19th April 2020.

In this month’s HR and Employment Law newsletter we covered topics which include, The CJEU Invalidates EU-US Privacy Shield; Can an Employee refuse to return to work because of a fear of contracting COVID-19? and reviewed Case law under the WRC.

Adare Human Resource Management is delighted to announce our partnership with laya healthcare.

Organisations nationwide are working tirelessly to implement the mandatory measures necessary under the return to work safely protocols.