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Social distancing will need to be introduced into every area of work from offices to construction sites to secure workplaces going forward in “the new normal”, the home secretary has told MPs.
Appearing before the home affairs select committee, Priti Patel was asked if there was an argument to ease lockdown restrictions based on the picture in specific regions, work sectors and based on individual risk profiles.
But before people go back to work there is a job to do yet in terms of securing work places.
The fact of the matter is we will not go back to how we were in early March. There will be new norms inevitably come off the way in which social distancing has dominated our lives and is affecting society.
The fact of the matter is to move into a new normal we will as a society have to operationalise new ways of working and of course they have to be tested. Employers have to embrace those, guidance will have to come from the government.
We have to consider all of this in terms of then looking at how – because we can not remain in this situation indefinitely – how we move into that phase, calibrated approach. We will be leading that. We will be putting guidance out there to employers, trade unions and others.
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