Covid-19: Noida employers ordered to give workers daily wages and leave

The Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration in Uttar Pradesh has said that any worker or employee infected with coronavirus and in isolation for treatment will get 28 days of paid leave from their employers, PTI reported on Sunday.

In orders passed on Saturday night, the administration added that shops, industries and factories closed because of the lockdown will have to provide a daily wage along with leave to their workers.

Gautam Buddh Nagar District Magistrate BN Singh said the Uttar Pradesh government has already declared the pandemic a “disaster”. “Workers and employees who are infected with COVID-19 and kept in isolation for treatment will get 28 days’ paid leave,” he said. “This will be done only when such patients produce a certificate of treatment to their employers upon being discharged as healthy.”