As Long Covid cases rise, employers are forcing frontline workers to come in when they're sick

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As Long Covid cases rise, employers are forcing frontline workers to come in when they're sick
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From being pressured by managers to come in, to having to work with colleagues who have tested positive, the global workforce needs safety and adequate resources

pay – both short and long term – from 7 July means NHS England staff will now have to abide by their previous contractual arrangements for pay and sickness absence, without the added pay for being off with Covid-19. With protections dwindling as rapidly as they have, it is no surprise that three years into the pandemic, workers conveniently deemed ““I refuse to put myself in harm’s way and go to work when I’m unwell.

Healthcare workers have refused to accept these changes and are organising in large numbers, as seen in ongoing

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