To say you don't go into public facing work with a fever?

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Posting on behalf of friend.

Friend is a waitress. She has fever and throat bug, been in bed for last 20 hours or so.

Restaurant pressuring her to dose up on paracetamol and go in for her shift tonight. Guilt tripping her. I say she says no. She's friends with managers, but on zero hours contract.

YANBU - she needs to stay home, recover, and not give nasty bug to customers.

YABU - she should go in. This is the real world and there are pressures on small businesses.

When I was young and foolish and had a manager who hated me, I took a perverse pleasure in dragging myself into work ill to cough and sneeze over customers and colleagues.

I wouldn't do it now, though.

It’s all good and well having morals when you can pay the bills.

She’s on a zero hour contract and likely
if she says no there will be no hours in the future.

Ideally nobody adults or children would go to work or school when sick. But sacking and fines happen.

In an ideal world, we should isolate and never spread germs.
In the real world, people have bills to pay - if she can afford not to go, great, but it's not always a choice.

The ones that should spend their eternity stepping on legos are selfish parents taking their sick kids on days out or in kids clubs!

If she's been in bed for 20 hours it sounds unlikely that she's physically well enough to do a job where she'll need to be on her feet for several hours.

Exactly.

Never mind the pressure on small businesses, what about the pressure on people to put food on the table and a roof over their family's heads?

To clarify - she really doesn't want to go, money or no money, because she feels horrendous, but feels pressured by managers

She's doing a zero hours job so she doesn't have to go in and she knows it 🤷‍♂️

Tell her to switch her phone off if she's too ill.

No drama.

Go in yourself in the guise of a customer and make a huge complaint to the manager that it's unhygienic to have an obviously ill person in a food environment. Hopefully they would send her home.