With torrential downpours, snow and ice and severe flooding causing both the Met Office and the Environment Agency to issue multiple weather warnings across the UK, Tony Fitzpatrick and Linzi Houghton from Fletcher’s Group have released comments explaining what legal rights Brits have when working under extreme weather conditions in the winter.
In cold weather, do employers have to make sure that their workers are warm enough in the office?
Explaining that there is no legal requirement around office temperature, Tony said: “In this country, there is no legal minimum or maximum temperature for office-based staff, but Health and Safety guidance suggests that the temperature should be set at a ‘comfortable’ level. This would be considered a duty of care rather than a legal requirement, but we always ensure the office temperature is at a ‘comfortable’ level for our staff.”
