The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Allegheny County, Pennsylvania · Pittsburgh · Pennsylvania
- Level
- County
- Authority
- County Executive's authority over the county workforce and county facilities (Home Rule Charter)
- Issued
- 2021-08-05 Aug. 5, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08-09 (new-hire vaccination); masking and testing immediately (read as 2021-08-09)
- End
- Superseded by the December 1, 2021 vaccination requirement (MET-PIT-052) (read as 2021-12-01)
- In force
- Aug. 9, 2021 to Dec. 1, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementWorkplace rulesVaccination or testing
- Addressees
- about 6,000 county employees
- visitors to county buildings
- county job applicants
- Functions reached
- WF (public employer)
- HR
- CT county buildings (visitor masks)
- Collection
- Pittsburgh MET-PIT
Operative words
(as reported) Unvaccinated county employees must wear masks and undergo constant COVID-19 testing... any unvaccinated individual who enters a county building also will be required to wear a mask.... We are not going to hire anybody, going forward, that does not have a vaccine card.
Enforcement
Employment condition; building access rule.
Notes
Q3 2021 county-government mandate. Primary directive text not located; graded secondary.
Retrieval noteContemporaneous press account of the County Executive's announcement.