Ardern: Bosses should check if staff should be isolating

Ardern: Bosses should check if staff should be isolating
Jacinda Ardern says employers should use the payments available to them.
Victoria Young
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said businesses should check if their employees have visited any places where they could have been infected with covid-19 and need to be self-isolating.At today’s 1pm press conference, where it was announced there were no new community cases, the prime minister said bosses need to check on their workers. “Make sure they don’t come to work and access the payments to support your workers financially,” Ardern said, reiterating there is a range of support packages available."Large orga...

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