FIFO and UK Quarantine Rules - Why is there not more fuss?

I am interested to hear what UK citizens in the extractive sector who work on Fly In Fly Out (FIFO) contracts abroad think about the UK government's COVID19 quarantine legislation that will enforce a two week quarantine following return from abroad not just from the general public but even from family members in one's home?

Not even terrorists under house-arrest in the UK are barred from contact with their families..... Under current proposed laws I would have to spend my two rest weeks at home locked away and denied any meaningful contact with my family after six weeks of work away (and a possible quarantine in the host country).

I find it deeply worrying that the media and government seem obsessed with plans for air-bridges so that people can have their summer holidays abroad (haven't we just all had a compulsory two month holiday?), but are silent on how those thousands of people in the extractive and other sectors who choose to remain domiciled in the UK and pay their taxes while working away are to work.

The proposals would make it very difficult to work abroad on FIFO and in so doing deny fundamental rights like the right to work and the human rights associated with family contact etc.

I hear lots of noise from the travel and tourism industry but little from those business and industry sectors that employ large numbers of FIFO workers like the etractive sector.

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Community Relations, Livelihoods and Social Value: I have over twenty years’ experience in working with communities in resource-scarce, conflict and post-conflict societies in Mozambique, Ethiopia, South Africa, the Sudan, Chad, Senegal, the DR Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Zimbabwe on community reconstruction and development.

More recently, I have worked in the oil and gas sector on significant social value programs in Greece (TAP) and Ghana (Jubilee) to bring sustainable benefits to impacted communties. I have experience in government and civil society and expertise in community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) with an emphasis on conflict resolution and the creation of livelihoods in and around conservation protected areas in Mozambique, Sudan, Senegal, Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania. I have also worked on Resettlement Action Plan’s (RAP) and Social Impact Assessment (SIA's) on resilient livelihoods reconstruction using PRA techniques.

I have worked with the extractive industry in the DRC, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Turkey to find solutions to the drivers of environmental degradation such as poverty and unsustainable natural resource usage to build meaningful social value for impacted communties. I have also provided livelihoods support for green energy infrastructure solar projects in Malawi, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. My work on livelihoods restoration linked to resettlement includes improved food security, agricultural intensification and improved resource utilisation; natural resource management and sustainability activities both on site and in the habitat surrounding operational sites as well as in rehabilitation and closure strategies that bring maximum benefit to neighbouring communities.

I have conducted Livelihoods Restoration studies in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Lesotho, Zambia, Ethiopia, Malawi and Tanzania and co-designed and managed a community forestry project in Bhutan, conducted reviews of projects in Mexico and India and published with co-authors and presented papers at various international conferences.

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