Employee worried to work on-site at the Good Life Foods factory, on Brunel Drive, Newark
| Updated: 16:14, 03 March 2021
A worried Newark factory employee says he does not feel safe at work.
An employee at The Good Life Foods factory, on Brunel Drive, alleged that workers continued to turn up for their shift, despite testing positive for covid-19.
The worker, who wanted to remain anonymous, said: There are people who have taken the test and are positive, but still come into work.
Good Life Foods, Newark (44812407) We don t feel safe with positive tests around. Social distancing is impossible. They do not test workers or measure temperature.
COVID-19: Angry Local Government Service workers demand relief package LISTEN
FEB 24, 2021
Local Government Service Workers Union has expressed its disappointment in the exclusion of its members from the list of beneficiaries of the government s COVID-19 package for frontline workers.
Speaking at the Union s 11
th Quadrennial Delegates Conference, held at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, the Chairman of the Union, Moses Awenkanab Awarikaro said their members, which include Environmental Health Officers deserve to receive insurance packages, given the critical role they play in preventing a spread of the virus.
“As Local Government Service workers, some of our colleagues are in the front role in the fight against COVID-19, especially, the cemetery workers of the Environmental Health and Sanitation Inspectorate, of the Assemblies, who are directly involved in the handling and burial of COVID-19 dead bodies.”
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NT COVID-19 – Infringement notice – Casuarina
Northern Territory Police have issued a 23-year-old woman with an infringement notice for ignoring directions to self-isolate.
The woman arrived in the Northern Territory on 13 February 2021 from a declared hotspot in Victoria. She was required to self-isolate for 14-days and advised to undertake a COVID-19 test.
During a compliance check, the woman was not at home. Police conducted an investigation into her whereabouts, which identified she was attending work instead of self-isolating and was issued an infringement notice.
NT Police and Environmental Health Officers continue to undertake compliance activities.
The infringement penalty for failing to abide by the Chief Health Officer Directions issued under section 56 of the Public and Environment Health Act 2011 is $5,056 for an individual and $25,280 for a business.
The woman arrived in the Northern Territory on 11 February 2021 from Victoria. She was required to self-isolate following the recent declared hotspot in.
Northern Territory Police have issued an infringement notice to a 20-year-old woman for breaching a Chief Health Officer Direction. The woman arrived in.