Following the publication of the Government’s ‘Resilience and Recovery 2020-2021: Plan for Living with COVID-19’, it’s clear that organisations need to take heed of the new medium-term approach to managing the risks of living and working with COVID-19.
The centrepiece of the plan is a ‘Framework for Restrictive Measures’ consisting of five Levels that will be applied to each county based on the incidence of COVID-19 in that county.
Organisations will bear the responsibility to keep up to date with the alert Level in effect in their county and to carefully follow the guidelines outlined for that Level.
We have updated our resources to reflect the latest Government advice and will continue to do so in line with any further developments.
Working with COVID-19 guidance
- How to conduct remote interviews
- Checklist on conducting remote interviews
- How to manage built up annual leave
- How to manage workplace COVID-19 testing
- How to manage COVID-19 related absences
- FAQs on reopening the workplace
- How to manage employee burnout
- How to handle face masks in the workplace
- How to minimise return to work risks
- How to handle employees who won't return to work
- How to manage reopening the workplace
- How to handle cost cutting due to coronavirus
- Disciplinary procedures
- Grievance procedures
Tools
- NEW - Letter arranging a meeting to discuss long-Covid
- NEW - Letter confirming accommodations put in place due to long-Covid
- NEW - Letter to employees regarding long-Covid
- NEW - Reasonable accommodations for long-Covid action plan
- NEW - Response to long-Covid policy
- Hybrid working policy
- Coronavirus wearing facemasks at work policy
- Letter to confirm mandatory facemask wearing in the workplace
- Letter inviting applicant to interview with Covid-19 social distancing measures in place
- Letter to remind employees to book and take their holiday leave entitlement before the end of the leave year
- Mass testing for Covid-19 policy
- Income supports summary
- Government framework for working through COVID-19
- Letter confirming that international travel is essential
- Letter to employees encouraging uptake of coronavirus vaccine
- Coronavirus vaccine policy
- Record of returning to the workplace after lockdown conversation
- Letter on agreement of variation of contract due to COVID-19
- Letter advising that a temporary period of homeworking is to continue
- Letter informing staff that the workplace is to reopen and safety provisions in place
- Letter to amend start/finish times due to shift staggering
- Letter to recall employee to workplace due to easing or lifting of lockdown
- Letter to staff who refuse to return to work due to Covid-19 concerns
- Return to work questionnaire
- Return to work form
Staff mental health guidance