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Emergency Ordinance No. 0141-2020 (COVID-19 Job Protections)

Establishing that employers may not retaliate against covered employees for obeying appropriate orders or instructions to stay at home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic or for staying at home to care for a member of their household who has COVID-19 or has been ordered or instructed to stay at home

Cincinnati City Council (Emergency Ordinance; Mayor Cranley, City Solicitor Boggs Muething) · City of Cincinnati, Ohio (City)

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Jurisdiction
City of Cincinnati, Ohio · Cincinnati · Ohio
Level
City
Authority
Ohio Const. Art. XVIII sec. 3 (recited); Charter Art. II sec. 6
Issued
2020-05-13 May 13, 2020
Effective
2020-05-13 (effective immediately) (read as 2020-05-13)
End
codified (no sunset) (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
May 13, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Workplace rulesQuarantine and isolation
Addressees
  • every Employer with at least one Covered Employee in Cincinnati
Functions reached
  • WF workforce (compelled absence under quarantine and isolation orders; employer may not backfill by termination)
  • HR
  • OP
Collection
Cincinnati MET-CIN

Operative words

Section 2. That an Employer shall not demote, terminate, or take adverse employment action against a Covered Employee for obeying an order issued by the Mayor, the Governor of Ohio, the Ohio Department of Health, or the Cincinnati Health Commissioner or the Cincinnati Board of Health, or in the case of subsections (a) or (b) below, a treating healthcare provider, requiring the Covered Employee to: (a) Remain at home while experiencing COVID-19 symptoms or sick with COVID-19... (b) Obey a quarantine order issued to the Covered Employee; (c) Obey an isolation order issued to the Covered Employee, including without limitation an order issued as a result of contact tracing.

Enforcement

Sec. 3: civil action for reinstatement, treble wages, actual damages, costs and attorney's fees; sec. 4: 30-day cure defense

Notes

Employer-directed local law of general application in force through Q3 2021; it made every State, county and City stay-home, quarantine and isolation order operative against every Cincinnati employer's staffing.

Retrieval note

Legistar matter 202000639, Passed Emergency May 13, 2020.