{"id":"DUT-AL-019","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Alabama","state":"AL","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Alabama Department of Public Health (posted with the Safer at Home Order of April 28, 2020)","authority":"Guidance; issued alongside the State Health Officer\u0027s Safer at Home Order (Ex. AL-017) under Ala. Code § 22-2-2(4)","instrument":"Guidelines for Safeguarding All Businesses (ADPH, 5/2020)","title":"Guidelines for Safeguarding All Businesses","dateIssued":"2020-04-28","effective":"2020-04-30","end":"2021-04-09 5:00 p.m. (the Safer at Home employer code\u0027s last day, Ex. AL-045; the guidance stayed posted)","startDate":"2020-04-30","endDate":"2021-04-09","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1"],"types":["EMP","MASK","TELE"],"addressees":["employers; specified businesses (all businesses); employees"],"clause":"It is strongly recommended that all businesses follow applicable covid-19-related safety guidelines... Here are other recommendations that all businesses are strongly encouraged to follow: Employers should: Allow employees to work from home as much as possible; Screen all employees reporting to work for COVID-19 symptoms","enforcement":"none by the document itself; see the incorporating instruments","functions":[],"notes":"Nothing by its own force: the document is written in the recommending register (\u0027strongly recommended,\u0027 \u0027strongly encouraged,\u0027 \u0027should\u0027) and lists telework, symptom and fever screening, hygiene, cloth face coverings and signage; its legal effect came from the instruments that incorporated guidance: the Safer at Home Order\u0027s retail sanitation clause (\u0027shall take reasonable steps to comply with guidelines on sanitation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Alabama Department of Public Health,\u0027 Ex. AL-017 ¶ 6.c), its mandatory employer code (¶ 4), § 25-1-1\u0027s duty to do \u0027everything reasonably necessary,\u0027 29 U.S.C. § 654(a)(1), and Act 2021-4\u0027s definition of \u0027applicable public health guidance\u0027 as guidance \u0027in any proclamation, order, or rule.\u0027","sourceUrl":"https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/legal/assets/cov-sah-businesses.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":1067140,"grade":"primary","character":"recommendation_only","description":"","collection":"DUT-AL","url":"/library/DUT-AL-019","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-AL-019","citation":"Alabama Department of Public Health (posted with the Safer at Home Order of April 28, 2020), Guidelines for Safeguarding All Businesses (ADPH, 5/2020) (Apr. 28, 2020) (Ex. DUT-AL-019)","stateName":"Alabama","related":["AL-045","AL-017","AL-013","AL-027"]}