Ms Bríd McKeown:

I think some people were told to go straight home. Some people who perhaps did not have symptoms felt pressure to go to work. I think many people were concerned about the loss of wages. I think there were also instances - these are anecdotal reports - of people who said they lived with another worker, both were tested, one tested negative and one positive, and the worker who tested negative was still asked to go to work rather than self-isolate for two weeks. I think there was pressure on workers to come to work but, equally, there was a lot of intimidating and threatening behaviour surrounding compliance in respect of Covid as well. That lack of communication with workers existed for sure, but we do not have specific statistics from workers who were or were not sick. We did not ask our respondents whether they tested positive.