The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- California
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- Labor Code secs. 142.3, 144.6; Gov. Code sec. 11346.1 (emergency regulation)
- Issued
- 2020-11-19 Nov. 19, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-11-30
- End
- Readopted with revisions effective 2021-06-17 (CA-024) (read as 2021-06-17)
- In force
- Nov. 30, 2020 to June 17, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolationSupply chain
- Addressees
- all employers and places of employment in California
- Functions reached
- WF exclusion and quarantine
- HR screening and training
- OF and PF workplace rules
- TR employer transportation
- SC
- Collection
- California CA
Operative words
'(a) Scope. (1) This section applies to all employees and places of employment, with the following exceptions: (A) Work locations with one employee who does not have contact with other persons...' '(c) Written COVID-19 Prevention Program. Employers shall establish, implement, and maintain an effective, written COVID-19 Prevention Program...' Exclusion of COVID-19 cases and exposed employees from the workplace with continued pay (c)(10)-(11); testing at no cost after workplace exposure; outbreak and major-outbreak rules (3205.1, 3205.2); employer-provided housing and transportation (3205.3, 3205.4).
Enforcement
Cal/OSHA citations and civil penalties under Labor Code sec. 6317 et seq.
Notes
The State agency order binding every employer, adopted Nov. 19, 2020 (recital in EO N-09-21 gives Nov. 20), effective Nov. 30, 2020.
Retrieval noteDIR removed the file from its site; the Wayback capture of Dec. 2, 2020 is the OSHSB approved text (21 pages). DIR release 2020-99 (Dec. 1, 2020) confirms OAL approval and the Nov. 30, 2020 effective date.