Your business and swine flu

Introduction

You may be concerned that swine flu is going to have an adverse impact on your business.

While there is a swine flu pandemic - which means that swine flu has now spread around the world - most of the cases reported so far in the UK have been mild. However, a number have led to serious illness or death - these have often been in patients with underlying health problems.

This guide gives advice on how to manage the impact of swine flu on your business and how to protect your staff.

It also covers managing absence due to sickness, insurance policies and the importance of risk management and business continuity planning.

Subjects covered in this guide

• Introduction
• Transmission of the swine flu virus
• Protecting your employees from swine flu
• Dealing with staff who have swine flu
• Business continuity planning and swine flu
• Working time and other legal issues if your business is affected by swine flu
• Statutory sick pay and swine flu
• Business insurance policies and swine flu
• Swine flu advice for specific business sectors

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