{"id":"DUT-WI-016","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Wisconsin","state":"WI","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Public Health","authority":"Wis. Stat. § 250.04 (department\u0027s general public health duties); guidance, not an order","instrument":"DHS web guidance, \u0027COVID-19: Businesses and Employers\u0027 (page as captured March 26, 2020)","title":"Guidance for Employers: what employers can do now to prepare for COVID-19 impacts to the workplace (sick leave, staying home when sick, hand hygiene, distancing of 6 feet, routine environmental cleaning, identification and isolation of sick people, response to a positive case)","dateIssued":"2020-03-26","effective":"2020-03-26 (capture date; the page was maintained and revised through 2020-2021)","end":"n/a (guidance)","startDate":"2020-03-26","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["EMP","OTHER"],"addressees":["employers (all Wisconsin employers, as addressees of a recommendation)"],"clause":"All employers need to consider how best to decrease the spread of acute respiratory illness and lower the impact of COVID-19 in their workplace.... Employers should ensure that their sick leave policies are flexible... Whenever possible, maintain a distance of at least 6 feet from others.... Ensure that employees who have symptoms of respiratory illness stay home and do not come to work","enforcement":"None of its own. Legal effect through Emergency Order #12 § 16 and Emergency Order #28 (Social Distancing Requirements \u0027includes... following all other public health recommendations issued by DHS and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control,\u0027 which Essential Businesses and Operations \u0027shall comply with\u0027 (Ex. WI-002 § 2; Ex. WI-003 § 2.b.ii.1)), March 25 to May 13, 2020; thereafter as the content of § 101.11\u0027s duty and of DHS 145.06(6) directives.","functions":[],"notes":"Recommended (\u0027should\u0027; imperatives without a sanction) that every employer keep symptomatic employees home, maintain 6-foot distancing, clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces daily, develop policies for prompt identification and isolation of sick people, and respond to a positive case; the page commands nothing of its own.","sourceUrl":"https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/employers.htm","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200326142929/https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/employers.htm","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":91888,"grade":"primary","character":"recommendation_only","description":"","collection":"DUT-WI","url":"/library/DUT-WI-016","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-WI-016","citation":"Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Public Health, DHS web guidance, \u0027COVID-19: Businesses and Employers\u0027 (page as captured March 26, 2020) (Mar. 26, 2020) (Ex. DUT-WI-016)","stateName":"Wisconsin","related":["WI-002","WI-003","DUT-WI-007"]}