Employer restrictions on out of work activities?

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b0rk said:

The concern will be you go away and come back unknowingly with cv19 then promptly spread it to other workers before you realise (or if asymptomatic never realise) and a few days/weeks later a load of your colleagues then have to self isolate leaving the company short of "essential workers".

The restriction isn't about protecting you but about protecting the company from you.

Indeed. If you have the flu then the company will quite rightly ask you to stay away until you are better. The symptoms are quite evident. If course we know this is not the case with Covid and there is the developing knowledge of how long it takes to develop and of those who are asymptomatic.

Using the same sort of logic as earlier posts, many companies have strict no alcohol or drugs at work or to be under the influence at work policies. They don't necessarily stop you from taking them outside but the policy aims to stop you coming to work or to be removed in quick time if you do.

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b0rk said:

The concern will be you go away and come back unknowingly with cv19 then promptly spread it to other workers before you realise (or if asymptomatic never realise) and a few days/weeks later a load of your colleagues then have to self isolate leaving the company short of "essential workers".

The restriction isn't about protecting you but about protecting the company from you.

The whole matter of quarantine when travelling abroad is a joke when used in a country with as many cases as the UK has. Many popular destinations are lower risk than the UK, leaving aside there may be an added risk of travelling through an airport. However the issue of the nations quarantine policy is entirely different to what an employer may do.

As I said before the employer is not stopping you travelling anywhere or doing anything, They are merely saying that if you elect to do so, recognize he would mandate you could not come to work for 2 weeks. Most of the sites I work on have a zero alcohol policy, as in I can be breath tested at 6am & if there is anything other than zero, I'm fired. That is also placing a restriction on what I do out of work; what I do out of work is perfectly legal; blowing above zero is perfectly legal, but an employer can say don't do it on pain of sacking. This is the same in many jobs.

Just tell your employer you are going to Leicester on holiday..... that'll teach him.