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Swine flu - HR advice travelling into London

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StickleTick · 06/05/2009 08:11

Our company employs about 75 in its london office, very cosmopolitan, lots of young, travelling students, with offices in Latin America. Normally, I go up once a week, but because of holidays etc, this will be my first visit in over a month - ie - fairly important. I'm 31 weeks pregnant. Emailed our HR???/accountant yesterday, and didn't get a reply. - I asked if he knew of anyone in the office who had recently travelled to Mexico, ... kind of hoping, he might tell me to work from home, which I do at least 2 days a week.

What advice are other MNs gettin on commuting - if pregnant/health impaired?. Only, we've had NO company emails telling us to stay away, if we've recently come back from travelling to Mexico, etc. Infact nothing re. the company and a Swine flu plan - [Then again, working at Bank, in the City, I was also told we weren't expecting any bother from the G20 demos, and to stay at home, ONLY if my line manager agreed?] Am I being unreasonable?

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lastboxoftampons · 06/05/2009 17:54

I think you're being slightly paranoid. My office is in London and we did have information about using tissues while sneezing, washing your hands, what to look out for in terms of symptoms, but that's it really. As far as everyone here is concerned it's business as usual.

IWantedThatName · 06/05/2009 18:03

Our company has put posters up in the toilets from the NHS advising the cough into a tissue bin it wash hands advice.

We have also had all "non business critical" travel grounded and those that are travelling to the US apparently are having medicals before being given permission to travel and will be supplied with Tamiflu.

TBH I think travel was grounded as we had someone swabbed for Swine Flu (not in teh UK) - so the potential for spread by people on business travel was increased.

TBH I think it is a bit of an over-reaction - but probably a response to a suspected infection in an employee and limiting the spread within the company as much as within the population.

TBH I think I would be questioning travel outside the UK to other affected areas. I wouldn't be worried about travel within teh UK.

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