Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)

The TUC called on ministers to accept the recommendations of the IIAC and ensure that health and social care workers, made long-term ill as a result of Covid exposure at work, get financial support. It said the government should also recognise long Covid as an occupational disease in other sectors in order to entitle more frontline workers to protection and compensation if they contracted the virus while working.

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