Boris Johnson has announced that the legal requirement to self-isolate if you have coronavirus could be removed as soon as 21 February. Sky News speaks to employment experts, businesses and unions about how they plan to tackle measures being removed.
Plans to abandon the law on self-isolation will cause a "fresh wave of anxiety" around COVID and the workplace, an employment expert has told Sky News.
Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday that "provided the current encouraging trends in the data" continue, people in England will no longer be legally obliged to isolate for five days if they test positive for the virus from the end of February.
COVID laws are a devolved matter so will be dealt with differently in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
While some have praised the move "back to normality", others have major concerns restrictions are being lifted too quickly and, in the absence of isolation, coronavirus cases will rise again.
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Gill McAteer, director of employment law at Citation, said: "In my experience, people have been quite happy to go back to work, but only on the basis that measures were being taken to keep COVID out of the workplace.
"This will throw everything into a new light and cause a fresh wave of anxiety that businesses can't guarantee they can keep COVID out of the workplace."
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