Vulnerable people, including pregnant women, should take particular care to keep their interactions with others low, and this means that such individuals may have particular concerns about attending work. In addition, in respect of pregnant employees, employers are under a specific legal obligation to:
Assess workplace risks;
Alter the employee’s working conditions or hours of work to avoid any significant risk;
where such alteration is not reasonable, or would not remove the risk, offer suitable alternative work on terms that are not substantially less favourable; and
Where suitable alternative work is not available, or the employee reasonably refuses it, to medically suspend the employee on full pay.