"For millions of workers, the coronavirus pandemic changed their working lives overnight, with enforced homeworking becoming the norm across the country for all those whose jobs could be done remotely. However, not all workers have jobs that can be done at home. Some of these workers have been supported under the job retention scheme, while others are already facing unemployment.

The government has now announced a slow phased re-opening of workplaces and are gradually lifting the restrictions put in place to limit the spread of Covid-19. But many workers who are now being asked to return to jobs outside of the home cannot return to their workplaces to the government's timetable.

This report focuses on what the government can do to reduce the financial impact to all workers who cannot work at home, but who have to stay at home, to ensure they do not lose their jobs because health, caring or wider challenges prevent them from attending work and undertaking their usual roles.
These workers cannot simply be left to lose their jobs."

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