Civil servants must take extra leave if they go abroad

The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has confirmed that all 340,000 civil and public service employees who undertake non-essential foreign travel must use additional annual leave or pre-arranged unpaid leave to self-isolate for 14 days on return.

It noted that if an employee chooses to go abroad for non-essential travel, they are going against government advice, "... and essentially making themselves unavailable to their place of work". Meanwhile ISME - which represents private sector small and medium enterprises - is advising member firms that as long as there is a required 14 day quarantine, there is no obligation to pay staff for that period.

"Current Government and HSE guidelines state that any person entering the country from anywhere outside the island of Ireland is required to self-isolate for a period of 14 days. ISME's advice is that employees can be asked not to return to work, and that would be deemed to be a "suspension on health and safety grounds".

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