{"id":532,"date":"2020-05-01T17:18:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T21:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=532"},"modified":"2020-05-01T17:18:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T21:18:45","slug":"how-to-respond-to-employee-refusal-to-return-to-work-in-face-of-covid-19-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/05\/01\/how-to-respond-to-employee-refusal-to-return-to-work-in-face-of-covid-19-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Respond to Employee Refusal To Return To Work in Face of COVID-19 in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The effects of the Coronavirus pandemic on the workplace continue.\u00a0 It is undeniable that the potential litigation arising out of COVID-19 will be far-reaching and there will be several areas that employers need to consider now and when the return to work phase commences in earnest.<\/p>\n<p>In a matter of months the Coronavirus pandemic has not only changed the way millions of employees work but also the way they may now view the workplace, particularly how safe they feel within their workplace.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this post by Duane Morris partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/nichart.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nic Hart<\/a>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/london\/2020\/05\/01\/employee-refusal-to-return-to-work-in-face-of-covid-19-threat-to-safety-what-is-your-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the <em>Duane Morris London Blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The effects of the Coronavirus pandemic on the workplace continue.\u00a0 It is undeniable that the potential litigation arising out of COVID-19 will be far-reaching and there will be several areas that employers need to consider now and when the return to work phase commences in earnest. In a matter of months the Coronavirus pandemic has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/05\/01\/how-to-respond-to-employee-refusal-to-return-to-work-in-face-of-covid-19-in-uk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Respond to Employee Refusal To Return To Work in Face of COVID-19 in UK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96,10,31,261],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-employees","tag-employers","tag-employment-law","tag-uk"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}