The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Mississippi
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Miss. Code Ann. §§ 41-3-15(4), 41-23-1, 41-23-5 (MSDH guidance function); the 'public health guidance' of S.B. 3049 § 2(k) (Ex. DUT-MS-010); the 'Mississippi State Department of Health's regulations and guidelines' of Executive Orders 1525, 1535, 1549 and 1551
- Issued
- 2021-08-26 Aug. 26, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-07 (read as 2021-08-26)
- End
- revised thereafter (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Aug. 26, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementWorkplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
- Addressees
- employers (restaurants and other workplaces)
- Character
- recommendation only
- Collection
- Standing duties: Mississippi DUT-MS
Operative words
If you have an employee that tests positive for COVID-19, o The positive employee should isolate at home for a full 10 days.... Unvaccinated close contacts should quarantine for 14 days.... Unvaccinated close contacts to COVID-19 cases may continue to work if you deem them essential as long as they monitor for symptoms daily, remain asymptomatic, and wear a mask at all times while at work.
Penalty
None of its own; through the shield, loss of immunity; through 29 U.S.C. § 654(a)(1), OSHA citation
What it required
As guidance ('should'), it directs employers to remove positive employees for ten days, to identify and quarantine unvaccinated close contacts for fourteen days (or retain them as essential only under daily monitoring and universal masking), to consider additional mitigation when multiple cases compromise safe operation, and to encourage vaccination and masks; it refers employers to CDC business guidance. Its compulsory force in the third quarter of 2021 came from the liability shield's condition (Ex. DUT-MS-010) and the OSH Act general duty clause (Ex. DUT-AL-009), and, for the isolated employee, from the State Health Officer's isolation authority (Exs. DUT-MS-006, DUT-MS-008, DUT-MS-019).
Retrieval note1 page; recorded as a recommendation, as its verbs have it ('should' twice; 'Encourage'). Linked as 'MSDH Guidance for Restaurants and Other Workplaces' from the MSDH COVID-19 page and the Business and Community section on Aug. 25, 2021 (Exs. DUT-MS-018, DUT-MS-012).