‘I just wish his employer cared about his staff’

By Anonymous2020-03-27T14:38:00

The wife of a site worker required to continue throughout the coronavirus pandemic tells her story

My husband is not in a post where he really needs to work. He does cosmetic repairs on houses for a subcontractor, but he says that if he doesn’t work he won’t be able to get any money when the time comes, as the government has stated that construction should stay open.

He’s working today. When he came home yesterday he said his boss was closing the office and that the admin staff had already gone.

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