The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 42 U.S.C. 241, 247d (public health guidance; no independent enforcement authority over private workplaces)
- Issued
- 2020-03-21 Mar. 21, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-21
- End
- superseded May 6, 2020 (Ex. DUT-FED-035) (read as 2020-05-06)
- In force
- Mar. 21, 2020 to May 6, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- all businesses and employers (non-healthcare)
- Character
- agency guidance recommendation
- Collection
- Standing duties: Federal layer DUT-FED
Operative words
Below are changes as of March 21, 2020: Updated cleaning and disinfection guidance; Updated best practices for conducting social distancing; Updated strategies and recommendations that can be implemented now to respond to COVID-19.... Employers should plan to respond in a flexible way... Actively encourage sick employees to stay home... Employees who have symptoms... should notify their supervisor and stay home.... Separate sick employees... Support respiratory etiquette and hand hygiene for employees, customers, and worksite visitors... Perform routine environmental cleaning and disinfection.
Penalty
What it required
Recommendation: the CDC's standard for every employer in March and April 2020 (send symptomatic employees home, separate the sick, hygiene, routine disinfection, distancing, flexible leave, travel restrictions). It became compulsory through the instruments that incorporated it: OSHA's enforcement plan measures the general duty clause against 'the most recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines' (Ex. AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-020); the CISA guidance directs that essential operations continue 'appropriately modified to account for Centers for Disease Control (CDC) workforce and customer protection guidance' (Ex. FED-394); and the State orders adopted it as a condition of operating (Duties layer, State by State). Character as recorded: agency_guidance_recommendation ('should').