Based on current rules many people could be facing weeks and weeks in isolation as we build to peak Omicron.
At the moment if you are a close contact of a household case, your 10 days isolation does not start until the infected person is 14 days through theirs and recovered.
Do the maths and that is 24 days at best. What if you do not have the leave? Can your boss make you work if you are stuck at home but not infected? And who pays?
Employment law expert Ben Thompson from Armstrong Thompson answers the questions.
