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Health and safety: Covid-19 and serious and imminent danger – a new dawn in employee litigation?
Lee Harding and William Mallin examine the extent of employees’ right to refuse to return to work because of the threat posed by the coronavirus ‘An employee’s belief that they should not be exposed to any danger whatsoever will clearly not be reasonable. Tribunals do not expect employers to eradicate risk, only to reduce the …
Cases Referenced
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- Begum v Sunlight Services Group Ltd [1998] 1 WLUK 95
- Edwards v Secretary of State for Justice [2014] UKEAT/0123/14
- Hamilton v Solomon and Wu Ltd [2018] UKEAT 0126/18/2409