Quote Originally Posted by EastStandRed View Post
Large manufacturing companies have been told a couple of weeks ago the date they could be expecting to start to open back up and have been given guidelines about doing this safely. If they are a good employer they will have been preparing things for the past week ready for phased reopening from this week.
I'm in contact with my immediate gaffer regularly , there's about five of em still working and just providing a very basic service to our customers .

Getting led by the government is how they are handling it and he's said nowt to me other than you are furloughed until further notice .

Nobody is expecting Johnson to ring my employer up personally but they've heard nothing , nothing what so ever .

No guidlines , no legislation about testing , PPE or assessing the risks , zilch .

There are more small companies manufacturing in the UK than large ones , I think that's a reasonable assumption to make in this day and age .