Question: What can I do if I am employed but cannot work because I am living with someone with symptoms of coronavirus?

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Offices and contact centres
section_headers: 2. Who should go to work
2.2 People who need to self-isolate
section_content: Objective: To make sure individuals who are advised to stay at home under
existing government
guidance do not physically come to work. This includes individuals who have
symptoms of COVID-19 as well as those who live in a household with someone who
has symptoms.
Steps that will usually be needed:


Enabling workers to work from home while self-isolating if appropriate.


See current guidance for employees and employers relating to statutory sick pay due to COVID-19.


See current guidance for people who have symptoms and those who live with others who have symptoms.


*[COVID-19]: coronavirus

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Helps employees  work with employers to receive help if having to stay home.
This does not answer the question. This answer consists of information intended for employers to make sure employees who have symptoms of Covid-19 or other individuals who are advised to stay at home do not physically come to work. It does not provide any information on what a person who is employed should do if someone they're living with has covid-19 symptoms.

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Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): what to do if you’re employed and cannot work
section_headers: Financial support if you have symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19)
section_content: Tell your employer that you have symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19). They
should tell you if you’re covered by their sick leave policy.
After the first 7 days of absence, they may also ask you for an isolation note
to show you cannot work because of coronavirus. You can get an isolation note
from NHS 111 online.
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)
If you cannot get sick pay from your employer, you could get Statutory Sick
Pay (SSP) for every day you’re in
isolation. You must self isolate for at least 4 days to be eligible.
If your self-isolation began before 13 March 2020
If you were self-isolating before 13 March 2020 because you had symptoms, your
SSP will begin from the fourth day.
If you were self-isolating before 13 March because someone in your household
had symptoms, you cannot get SSP.
Check you’re eligible for SSP.
*[SSP]: Statutory Sick Pay

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Provides guidance for the employee on such things as sick pay if having to stay at home.
This does not answer the question. This information is intended for a person who has the symptoms of Covid-19 and need to isolate and not for a person who is living with someone with symptoms of Covid-19.

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Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): what to do if you’re employed and cannot work
section_headers: If someone you live with has symptoms of coronavirus
section_content: You must stay at home if someone you live with has symptoms of coronavirus
(COVID-19). This is sometimes known as ‘self-isolating’.
If you can work from home
You should work from home if you can. Speak to your employer about working
from home.
If you cannot work from home
Tell your employer that a member of your household has symptoms of coronavirus
(COVID-19) and that you must self-isolate. They should tell you if you’re
covered by their sick leave or special leave policy.
If you cannot get sick pay from your employer, you might be able to get
Statutory Sick Pay from day one of
self-isolation.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Provides guidance on statutory sick pay .
This is a direct answer to the question. This provides information on what to do if a person is employed and their household member or housemate has symptoms of Covid-19.

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