Name: Coronavirus: PM encourages some people to return to work - BBC News
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workers are being encouraged to return to their places of work if they can't work from home.

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The government said it was working with employers to establish guidance about making the workplace safe.

Our business editor, Simon Jack, has been looking at how businesses are adapting.

Back to work we dio manufacturing workers actively encouraged tonight by the PM to return at Ford Technical Center in Dunton.

Safe are 600 of 4000 employees already have a squirt of hand gel on a temperature check now part of the morning routine.

But feeding the Ford 4000 may take a miracle of organization catering firm compass from the staff canteen on the kitchens that would usually have 10 chefs on duty.

Business is slow communal areas like stuff canteens.

A lot of people thinking they should be shut compass.

Whether they think they can do it is where the workers feel comfortable, and that applies to kitchen and canteen workers as well.

If employees don't want to do anything what?

The priority at the moment is to make sure they've got the right PPE.

We put the right process is in place that you've seen today in the Yorkshire Dales at the Gamecock in the food is take out.

Only Eric and Marissa, 56 take away Sunday lunches.

This afternoon, the prime minister raised hopes that hospitality could partially reopened in July.

But Marie worries that opening too soon, maybe as risky as not opening for months.

We have little rooms, is dining rooms and it would mean us having one table per room of dinos, which isn't worth opening for.

We just don't have, you know, the overheads and more expensive than what we've been bringing in.

Or there's also do you the way that we might not hope open until next year.

By then, we won't have the funds to be able to do it either.

The truth is that businesses big and small are already inching back to work.

But it's a journey of confidence, and unions aren't convinced.

The government has everyone on board, particularly as the government says workers should avoid using public transport.

I'm afraid the prime minister's statement tonight is a recipe for confusion and possibly Kale's.

With just 12 hours notice, people are being encouraged to go back to work, but without any answers on what happens on public transport.

What happens if you're supposed to be shielded or vulnerable in some other way?

Manufacturing managers feel ready to go in those areas where we've prepared successfully, which we have.

We've prepared diligently, which we have.

Updated guidelines on making workplaces safe are expected on Tuesday.

Thes are tentative moves forward, and the government told business groups on a call tonight it would put them back into reverse if it has to.

Now the move to reopen schools in England is seen as a vital factor in kick.

Starting the economy by allowing parents to return to work will talk to our economics editor, Faisal Islam, in just a moment.

But before that, let's talk to our education correspondent laying Dunkley, who is in sore for tonight on delaying what do you make of this package and one of the questions raised.

Well, primary school Children in England could be going back to school in just over three weeks.

So those in reception year one and year six they could be going back after the first of June on.

The prime minister also announced that secondary school pupils who were taking exams next year could also be going back to get some extra time with teachers.

But they're going to be some big maybes hanging over this and some even bigger headaches on the headache being social distancing within the classrooms.

Teachers are very concerned, particularly when they've got primary school Children that they won't be able to maintain social distancing, hand washing, minimizing social interactions in the playground, in the classroom, in the canteen.

And this is going to hugely change the classroom environments.

Also, there's the issue of if a child becomes ill, what happens?

Does the whole school then have to go into isolation Now?

The teaching unions have called this reckless.

They've asked for clear scientific evidence for a safe time to return back to school.

They say that this doesn't pass the confidence test with parents teachers on.

Whilst there is a need to have Children back at school, this is a big lesson and keeping teachers Children on their family safe lane.

Many thanks again playing donkey there for us, our education correspondent in Salford.

Back here in the studio, Faisal is with me, our economics editor.

Clearly, the government's dealing with a huge health crisis and has bean four months now.

But tell us a little more than about the economic crisis that they're also having to deal with two crises here.

Hope for the health one has peaked, but the economic one gets more severe by the week.

And if you cut through everything that the prime minister said today, and what you get is the fact that the economic locked down, in essence stays largely on indeed is extended in terms of things like restaurants and cafes and cinemas will get a detail tomorrow into July.

In other areas, there will have heard the change in tone.

The shift of emphasis is the prime minister called it from states home Thio, Thio, stay alert.

I think when the original prohibitions and the original lock down was brought in on.

The government didn't expect so many businesses, and certainly workers that did have some discretion to still work, not to take it up.

The lock down wasn't water tight, but it felt more watertight than it than it wants.

So I think that in that what they're trying to do is essentially persuade people to use the discretion in the existing rules.

That's what the prime minister's words were about.

 If the infection rate goes up, Promises also said, the brakes will be applied. 