Can an employee be disciplined for going on an \u2018illegal\u2019 foreign holiday during the current lockdown regime?<\/p>\n
The stating point is the current\u00a0government guidance on travel<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>That guidance begins by stating unambiguously as follows:<\/p>\n \u2018\u2019Under current UK COVID-19 restrictions, you must stay at home. You must not travel, including abroad, unless you have a legally permitted reason to do so. It is illegal to travel abroad for holidays and other leisure purposes.\u2019\u2019 It continues \u2018\u2019 It is illegal to travel abroad for holidays and other leisure purposes.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n So far so clear.<\/p>\n To read the full text of this post by Duane Morris partner Nic Hart<\/a>, please visit the Duane Morris London Blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Can an employee be disciplined for going on an \u2018illegal\u2019 foreign holiday during the current lockdown regime? The stating point is the current\u00a0government guidance on travel.\u00a0That guidance begins by stating unambiguously as follows: \u2018\u2019Under current UK COVID-19 restrictions, you must stay at home. You must not travel, including abroad, unless you have a legally permitted … <\/p>\n Continue reading “UK: Employee Travel During COVID-19 Lockdown”<\/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":[1102,31,501,14,261],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-employee-travel","tag-employment-law","tag-lockdown","tag-travel","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":"Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","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=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}