Gig economy workers' Covid nightmare - 1 in 10 return to work before finishing isolation

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Ministers are under pressure to tighten outdated Covid-safety rules for workplaces amid fears workers are being put at risk during lockdown.

One in 10 insecure workers - 350,000 people in the gig economy, agency workers or on zero-hours contracts - were back at their jobs within 10 days of a positive Covid test due to inadequate statutory sick pay, according to the RSA thinktank.

Around 4 per cent - or 1.2 million people - in the wider workforce also went back within 10 days. The RSA also found 12 per cent of all workers have been ordered to come into the office when they could have worked from home.

Alan Lockey, head of the RSA’s future of work programme, said: “Our polling shows that millions feel forced to put themselves and others at