Self employment and isolation

paulafbrown

I've recently moved to full time self employment rather than a hybrid. I'm irked by being asked to follow the old COVID guidelines (-soon to be paying- for tests, testing and isolating) when working in schools despite this not being the legal requirement currently. The worst case scenario would be me losing 10 days of pay even if I was well enough to work as they aren't offering to pay me as they would pay their employed staff.  It's this legal? Self employment can be hard these days!

sheramber

https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2022/02/21/what-the-latest-advice-on-testing-and-self-isolation-means-for-education-settings/

From 24 February, the Government will remove the legal requirement to self-isolate following a positive test. In addition, the Government will no longer ask fully vaccinated close contacts and those aged under 18 to test daily for 7 days and routine contact tracing will end.

Adults and children who test positive will continue to be advised to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for at least 5 full days and then continue to follow the guidance until they have received 2 negative test results on consecutive days.

TBagpuss

I think it probably is legal - would depend on the specific terms of the contract you have with them in terms of whether and with how much notice they can cancel your visits, and whether the rules about covid are written into that agreement

sheramber

While you may feel okay you are still potentially going to infect a lot of  children/people.

silvercar

Are you being asked or required to test?

if it is a requirement then you could ask if they would pay you if positive.

Andy_L

You should raise the amount you charge schools to cover the extra costs of testing  and, potentially, not being able to work.
If you can't do that then it suggests you aren't truly self-employed and someone is takeing the Mickey 

FeaturelessVoid

sheramber said:

While you may feel okay you are still potentially going to infect a lot of  children/people.

Which is true if the OP has any infectious disease.

Omnicron is milder than a cold in most cases, are we going to start shutting down society again because a few people have the sniffles?