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Coronavirus: Your workplace questions

Steve Bridger

At this difficult time, we'd like to offer people managers (and others) who are not CIPD Members an opportunity to ask questions about their specific workplace challenges.

We hope that collectively, the Community will feel able to chip in with guidance and signpost support and resources where these exist.

Thank you. 

  • in reply to Melanie Davies
    Hi Melanie we have carried out home working risk assessments first and allowed people to pick up their chairs from the office and IT have assisted with anything further.
  • Hello, I'd like some advice for a relative. She's a speech & language therapy assistant working for the NHS in the schools community and was redeployed to work as a healthcare assistant on a mixed covid/non-covid ward. She found out through a colleague that they are all returning to their normal roles apart from herself and another colleague. She's asked to know how and why the decision was made but no one has responded, or when she will be able to return to her usual role. They were also promised a pay rise which didn't materialise so she's feeling understandably disheartened. It's very difficult to find information from the employee's point of view, but is she able to refuse to continue with the redeployment? Many thanks.
  • We have issued the HR 1 form but now thankfully in the position not to progress redundancies is there a process for withdrawing the HR1 form please?

  • I am curious to see how other HR professionals are dealing with holiday carry over? I just joined a company and the holiday is due to reset in January and noticed a lot of employees have over 25 days to take from now until the end of December. I was under the impression that the change was aimed at allowing businesses under particular pressure from the impacts of COVID-19 the flexibility to better manage their workforce, while protecting workers' right to paid holiday.  

  • in reply to Lilia Adani
    Lilia if you use the search facilities you will find a number of questions around holiday, carry over etc during Covid (indeed its probably mentioned earlier in this thread)

    Many organisations (including my own) have been mandating a certain amount of leave being taken per quarter during this crisis. You have under the Covid regulation the ability to allow a greater degree of carry over this year - its not a right but something you can do
  • in reply to Keith
    Thank you for the advice, I am new to this forum so not 100% how to use it but i will search as you said.
  • I am sure this has been asked before but I can't find it so apologies if I am duplicating. If someone is not following COVID restrictions outside of work, is there anything an employer can do as it is not work-related but could affect others that they work with the continuity of the business?
  • in reply to Georgia
    Georgia said:
    I am sure this has been asked before but I can't find it so apologies if I am duplicating. If someone is not following COVID restrictions outside of work, is there anything an employer can do as it is not work-related but could affect others that they work with the continuity of the business?

    Relatively little. Clearly if their actions outside work are so outrageous as to seriously endanger the H&S of colleagues in the workplace then you could warn (even potentially suspend) etc but....if someone is stupid enough not to follow government guidelines then are they likely to listen to you?

    Best to have  a quiet word maybe.

    Also you have little knowledge of how well most employees are following guidelines out of work

  • in reply to Keith
    Thank you, Keith. It's pretty much what I thought too, taking everything else away, I think to stand on that soapbox you would have to be an absolutely perfect role model for following the guideline and I think with the best will in the world it's extremely difficult. Thanks again