Operating remotely

(1) For the purposes of preventing, controlling, containing and suppressing the spread of the infectious disease COVID-19, every employer of a public or private business that is not an essential business, shall implement measures to allow their employees to operate remotely where that business is one which the duties of the employee are capable of being performed from the employee’s place of residence. 27 (2) Employees who are permitted to work remotely under subregulation (1) shall– (a) be available for work during that employee’s normal working hours; (b) stay at home and observe social distancing protocols and curfew impositions; and (c) report to the employer as required or instructed. (3) Where an employee’s assigned tasks at his place of employment can only be discharged at his place of employment, that employee shall report to work unless instructed by the employer not to report to the place of work in order to try to contain the spread of COVID-19.