Irish Examiner View: Covid-19’s unfair employers - Cruel abuse of rights in workplace

At a time of unprecedented health and employment crisis, such as the one in which we remain it’s reasonable in a compassionate and civilised society to expect to see the milk of human kindness flowing unstintingly to those most in need.

At a time of unprecedented health and employment crisis, such as the one in which we remain — despite talk of loosening the lockdown and restarting the economy — it’s reasonable in a compassionate and civilised society to expect to see the milk of human kindness flowing unstintingly to those most in need.

Among the many most in need are those who through no fault of their own have had their lives turned upside down and left to the tender mercies of their employers and a state that has at unprecedented cost pulled out all of the stops to try and ensure that those affected — companies and employees — are treated fairly.