Covid-19: Know your rights while working from home, self isolating or in quarantine

What are the rights in terms of self-quarantine? Do you get special leave, and what is special leave or does the leave come from sick leave?Generally speaking, for all intents and purposes, individuals on self-quarantine or self-isolation, remain employees.

Subject to the provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Act , an employee may also apply for illness benefits from the Department of Labour, if the employee is sick for longer than 7 days. Notwithstanding the Minister’s above remarks, it is unclear whether employees may claim the special types of leave from the Department of Labour at this stage. They are not yet sanctioned by law.

The notice outlines certain "occupations at risk". It categorises the occupations as very high exposure risk occupations, high exposure risk occupations, medium exposure risk occupations and low exposure risk occupations. The occupations range from doctors, nurses, ambulance personnel to low risk jobs - that do not require contact with people known to be, or suspected of being infected with Covid-19, nor frequent contact the general public.

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