SHOOT: If businesses during a recession reckon they can make more money by having sick people stay home, you must know things are getting really serious.
Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Companies should prepare for a
severe swine flu outbreak, with plans to send sick workers home
and maintain essential operations when parents have to stay with
their children, U.S. officials said.
“We already face much economic uncertainty, and a flu
outbreak is a very scary prospect,” said Gary Locke, U.S.
secretary of commerce, in a televised briefing today. “The key
is for every business to put in place plans to continue to
operate with a severely reduced workforce. Each company, each
business, each industry varies.”
The swine flu virus, also known as H1N1, has reached more
than 170 countries and territories in the four months since
being identified, the Geneva-based World Health Organization
said. “In America we love to praise the Puritan work ethic, but
this fall it would serve the country better to praise” work
practices that help keep employees healthy and prevent the
spread of flu, Locke said.
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