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ARTICLE · 14 APRIL 2020

The Response To Covid-19: Employment Issues

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Readers will have felt the effect on their everyday lives for some time, including in the workplace. Employers are facing trying times dealing with measures aimed at countering the spread of the virus

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Bradley Houlston
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First Published in The Royal Gazette, Legally Speaking, March 2020

The first seven* cases of Covid-19 in Bermuda have been confirmed and the situation continues to develop.

Readers will have felt the effect on their everyday lives for some time, including in the workplace. Employers are facing trying times dealing with measures aimed at countering the spread of the virus.

Perhaps most immediately, employers have been grappling with what steps they can reasonably take to ensure the health, safety and welfare of their employees, as they are required to do by law.

Travel restrictions have already curtailed business and personal travel. Workplaces that can have been transitioning to home-working arrangements while those that remain open are implementing "social distancing" and enhanced hygiene measures in line with the latest Government guidance.

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