As many of you are now well aware, there has been a novel strand
of the Coronavirus identified in humans for the first time. The new
strand, known as (2019-nCoV) (the Coronavirus) was
first reported in Wuhan, China on 31 December 2019, but has rapidly
spread throughout the world, causing the World Health Organisation
(WHO) to declare a global emergency.
Despite our Government's best effort's, New Zealand
still needs to prepare for the possibility of an outbreak.
Employers will need to determine how they will deal with a number
of situations, such as:
- an employer's obligations in relation to Health and
Safety;
- the ability to require employees to stay home;
- an employee's ability to refuse to attend work; and
