Hi all. I started a new job on 10 May 2021. Last week, around 19 May we had a visibly and admittedly sick person in the workplace, in a poorly ventilated space. This person had tested negative for covid but was still unwell. The person in question was then not at work on the 20th and 21st. On Saturday the 22nd, the whole staff was informed that the previously mentioned employee had tested positive upon a second test. All protocols were followed thereafter. However, I have now contracted the virus as a direct result of this person not being sent home when they were ill and symptomatic. I have exposed family members who are high risk. This is a brand new job and I don't want to ruin it, but I have just had to pay a large amount out of a pro rated salary to treat the illness I contracted as a result of what I believe to be negligence on the part of my employer for not sending my colleague home when he was clearly sick(perhaps not legally but certainly morally) because my brand new company medical aid hasn't covered a cent of the costs associated with covid.
Can anyone offer me some advice, a manner of recourse that won't ruin the working relationship?
Thanks.