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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