Advice on working with type 1

[Donna Mac]

Hello, I am new on here and would like advice on what to do and what support I can get if I have to stay away from work.
I am a type 1 diabetic and I have Pernicious anaemia,B12 deficiency and an under active thyroid.
I am working in a care home and staff are self isolating with Coronavirus symptoms and currently, 3 elderly residents are in isolation with suspected Coronavirus.
Should I be working? Self isolating? Can I request my employer to furlough me?

 

[Docb]

If you read around the forum you will find lots of discussion on this subject. At the end of the day, the decision has to be made by you in conjunction with your employer. Your medical conditions, as far as I understand it, do not put you in any special category so any decision will have to be made on how well the care home is coping in what are very difficult circumstances.

 

[Robin]

Whatever you and your employer decide, I don’t think furloughing will be an option. This is for when an employer would otherwise have to make a staff member redundant, on the grounds that their job doesn’t exist any more, or there isn’t any work for them to do. Presumably in a care home setting the job you do would still exist and need to be done, so wouldn’t fall under the redundancy rules.

 

[SB2015]

Welcome to the forum @Donna Mac

As others have said your medical conditions are not included in the list of people that need to be shielded. This advice from DUK is an update to date summary of the current situation.

Coronavirus and diabetes updates

All the coronavirus information below applies to the whole of the UK, unless specified. We've noted where are some differences in guidance and diabetes services across the UK.

www.diabetes.org.uk

I hope that helps.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Hope you and your employer manage to reach an amicable solution that works well for both of you, in the meantime, just be extra careful about distancing and handwashing as much as is possible.