The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Michigan
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Act, MCL 408.1024 (emergency rules); Administrative Procedures Act, MCL 24.248
- Issued
- 2020-10-14 Oct. 14, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-10-14
- End
- Six-month term to April 14, 2021; extended April 13, 2021 for six months; amended May 24, 2021 (remote-work rule removed); rescinded June 22, 2021 (extension and rescission dates from prior research and contemporaneous reporting, not read in-session) (read as 2021-04-14)
- In force
- Oct. 14, 2020 to Apr. 14, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Telework mandateFace-covering requirementWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- all employers covered by MIOSHA
- Functions reached
- OP office (in-person work prohibited where remote feasible)
- HR screening, training, written preparedness plans
- PF, JS, SF, DR sector rules
- WF workforce
- Collection
- Michigan MI
Operative words
These rules take effect upon filing with the secretary of state and shall remain in effect for 6 months.... Rule 5. Basic infection prevention measures for all employers.... (8) The employer shall create a policy prohibiting in-person work for employees to the extent that their work activities can feasibly be completed remotely.
Enforcement
MIOSHA citations and penalties under MCL 408.1035-.1036; MIOSHA issued COVID-19 emergency-rule citations (e.g., Midway Rentals and Sales; Prefix Corporation; Eastbrook Homes, per the LEO document index)
Notes
Replaced the Governor's workplace-safeguard orders after October 2, 2020 with the same daily screening, distancing, face-covering and sector rules plus the remote-work prohibition; the MDHHS gathering orders of December 2020 and January 2021 expressly exempt 'Workplace gatherings that occur consistent with the Emergency Rules issued by MIOSHA on October 14, 2020.'
Retrieval noteExistence and date confirmed from the MDHHS orders' own references (Ex. MI-061, MI-063) and the LEO document index; Retrieved and read in-session (late retrieval). Rule 5(8) confirmed verbatim in the retrieved text: 'The employer shall create a policy prohibiting in-person work for employees to the extent that their work activities can feasibly be completed remotely.' Extension (Apr. 13, 2021), amendment (May 24, 2021) and rescission (June 22, 2021) dates remain from prior research.