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Coronavirus – Board info and recommended policy

Coronavirus – Board Recommendation  
 

Following our meeting on Tuesday, SARA’s board has decided to share their recommendation regarding dealing with the Coronavirus within members’ companies. 

From a legal perspective, in Switzerland, employers have the obligation to protect their employee’s health according to Art. 6 of the Labor Law. The Ordinance 3 on the Labor Law specifies this requirement in its Art. 2 stating that “the employer is required to take all necessary measures to ensure and improve the protection of health and to guarantee the physical and mental health of employees”.

The board therefore recommends that you would have a discussion with all the members of your team susceptible to come in contact with people coming form a Coronavirus danger zone. Should any of your employee refuse to work with those client, the employer will have to accept it. 
Should they accept to work with these clients, we recommend you to apply the below preventive measures. 

For more information, you can check the CDC information website as well as the WHO Advice for public.

At this stage, several of our client companies are considering asking their employees to work remotely when they can. If you have any further information, please share it with us by email: contact@sara-relocation.com or WhatsApp: 079 632 82 33.  

You will find hereunder the text you can use and share with your client companies, RMS, customers and of course employees. We are also giving you the emergency Coronavisur Phone Number in Switzerland.

We hope this will be useful to you all. 

Kindest regards 
Your Board 
Preventive measures – Coronavirus – February 26th 2020
 

Given current developments around the corona virus and the fact that our consultants are in close contact to transferees, we have to take certain preventive measures.

For transferees who travel to Switzerland from high-risk countries or regions, the following applies:

Briefly before the transferee’s arrival in Switzerland, we will contact the transferee and ask if he/she has any of the following symptoms:

  • Non-specific malaise, fatigue and fever similar to the symptoms of flu

  • Any respiratory symptoms, particularly a dry cough.

  • Headache; muscle pain, nausea and diarrhea.

  • Shortness of breath

  • Pneumonia accompanied by difficulty breathing and involvement of other organ systems

If the answer is yes, to any of these questions, the transferee needs to do a medical check before any face-to-face contact with our employees in and outside the office.

If the answer is no to all questions, we introduce the following preventive measures:

  1. During face-to-face contact (local registration, orientation tour, accompanied home search tour), we ask the transferee from risk countries/regions to purchase and wear a mask

  2. We ask to keep a distance of minimal 1 meter (3 feet), this implies that we may ask transferees to sit in the back seat

  3. We prevent any physical interaction such as hand shaking and hugging

  4. We ask the transferee to regularly and thoroughly clean hands with an alcohol-based hand rub or wash them with soap and water

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Thanks for your understanding!

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