The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Wisconsin
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Wis. Stat. § 250.04 (department's general public health duties); guidance, not an order
- Issued
- 2020-03-26 Mar. 26, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-26 (capture date; the page was maintained and revised through 2020-2021) (read as 2020-03-26)
- End
- n/a (guidance) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Mar. 26, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesOther
- Addressees
- employers (all Wisconsin employers, as addressees of a recommendation)
- Character
- recommendation only
- Collection
- Standing duties: Wisconsin DUT-WI
Operative words
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
Penalty
None of its own. Legal effect through Emergency Order #12 § 16 and Emergency Order #28 (Social Distancing Requirements 'includes... following all other public health recommendations issued by DHS and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control,' which Essential Businesses and Operations 'shall comply with' (Ex. WI-002 § 2; Ex. WI-003 § 2.b.ii.1)), March 25 to May 13, 2020; thereafter as the content of § 101.11's duty and of DHS 145.06(6) directives.
What it required
Recommended ('should'; 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.
Retrieval noteRecorded as a recommendation; its verbs are 'should' and unsanctioned imperatives. The page is the 'public health recommendations issued by DHS' that Emergency Order #12 § 16 folded into the mandatory Social Distancing Requirements.