Ms Bríd McKeown:

With regard to workers' responsibilities and their behaviour in respect of Covid, if one is working in a work environment in which one's employer has not implemented any health and safety measures and in which one is working shoulder to shoulder with people at the same or even an increased rate of production, the employer has a responsibility to give resources and information to workers about good hygiene practices and social distancing. A lot of the public information that was made available was in English so people were not necessarily being educated at the same rate as domestic English speakers. If one is being exposed at work, day in, day out, one has less of an incentive to maintain social distancing outside of work. The conversation regarding workers' behaviour during that time really negates the legal obligations on employers to have put in appropriate health and safety measures.