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TUC: Workers at risk as ministers “sow dangerous confusion” on covid safety
16/03/2022
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John van der Luit-Drummond, Editor

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has told the UK government that workers’ safety is being put at risk by confusion created by new guidance on covid-19 and workplace risk assessments.

Paragraph 60 of the prime minister’s “Living with covid plan, presented to parliament on 21 February, states that from 1 April employers will no longer have to explicitly consider covid in their risk assessments.