Your business and swine flu
Introduction
You may be concerned that swine flu is going to have an adverse impact on your business.
While there is a swine flu pandemic - which means that swine flu has now spread around the world - most of the cases reported so far in the UK have been mild. Only a small number have led to serious illness and these have often been in patients with underlying health problems.
This guide gives advice on how to manage the impact of swine flu on your business and how to protect your staff.
It also covers managing absence due to sickness, insurance policies and the importance of risk management and business continuity planning.
Subjects covered in this guide
- Introduction
- Transmission of the swine flu virus
- Protecting your employees from swine flu
- Dealing with staff who have swine flu
- Business continuity planning and swine flu
- Working time and other legal issues if your business is affected by swine flu
- Statutory sick pay and swine flu
- Business insurance policies and swine flu
- Swine flu advice for specific business sectors

Swine Flu Information Line
0800 1 513 513
National Pandemic Flu Service
0800 1 513 100

Actions
- Swine flu advice on the NHS website - Opens in a new window
- Advice on swine flu in the workplace on the Acas website - Opens in a new window
- Advice on swine flu for employers and staff on the Health Protection Agency website - Opens in a new window
- Swine Flu case studies on the British Chambers of Commerce website - Opens in a new window
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