Returning From France And Quarantining

[Deskdiary]

Reports in some papers of people missing the 4am deadline by a couple of hours.

There’s one person in a couple who made the deadline, but for some reason the other didn’t, so one has to quarantine and one doesn’t.

There’s also a report of a woman missing the deadline because her TGV was delayed resulting in her missing her Eurostar train.

If you missed the deadline by such a small margin, would you quarantine?

[Jackdaw33]

If you are not allowed to work from home then surely Statutory Sick Pay should apply.

[THECORBYLOON]

If you're not sick, there's no entitlement to SSP. Employers can pay it still if they want to but they're not obliged to.

[MartinMillar]

My employer and my husband employer has said if you take the chance to go abroad and then have to quarantine them that is 2 weeks leave if you have it or 2 weeks unpaid if you don’t.
No dick pay no working from home.
I would be mighty annoyed if my leave was cancelled because of someone taking 2 extra weeks because they were daft enough to travel abroad during a pandemic.

[murraymints]

I can only add..if you had had COVID or a close family member had..then you would adhere to the rules and would not even consider such travel abroad...you have NO idea how nasty this virus is !

[DTCwordfan]

There is a loop hole - cross to Jersey, take a pcr test and then cross over to Britain, the delay 0-5 days for the test results. Guernsey is isolating folk from France for 7 days....

[lankeela]

Surely it is not a case of 'the virus will be worse from next Tuesday so we can delay quarantine for a few more days' - if it is bad enough to warrant quarantine then it needs to be immediate.

[bednobs]

I think my work wants to be fair to everyone. There are plenty of people at my work who cannot work from home so it's unfair o n them if the people who can are allowed to during quarantine. J cant complain - when the kids were off school they gave unlimited covid leave for childcare