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ARTICLE · 27 FEBRUARY 2020

An Employer's Guide To Navigating The COVID-19

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Employers are dealing with rapidly evolving manpower challenges arising from the COVID-19 epidemic. They are grappling with issues of employees potentially being placed on quarantine

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Sharanjit Kaur
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Employers are dealing with rapidly evolving manpower challenges arising from the COVID-19 epidemic. They are grappling with issues of employees potentially being placed on quarantine or forced leave of absence, excess or imbalanced manpower, implementing protocols to minimise health and safety risks, and putting in place business continuity plans (“BCP”) and crisis management plans.

Here are some of these issues, and how employers can tackle them.

1. Enhanced health and safety plan for employees

Employers have a statutory duty under the Workplace Health and Safety Act to take measures that ensure the health and safety of their employees at work to the extent reasonably practicable, failing which they may be liable for committing a criminal offence. Employers also have an additional duty in common law to provide and maintain a reasonably safe place of work and to take reasonable care of their employees’ safety.

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