Essential workers face major Covid-19 risk because of outdated safety rules

2021-01-06T14:26:27-08:00January 6th, 2021|Categories: Economy|Tags: , , |

The TUC Tuesday called on the government to urgently update workplace safety rules to protect essential workers and those who can’t work from home from Covid-19. Since the rules were published in March 2020, the scientific understanding of how the virus spreads has changed. And the UK is now battling a strain that is far more easily transmitted. Yet the rules have not been fully updated – and the union body says that this is putting workers at risk. [...]