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Executive Order #94, Relating to Actions Every Wisconsinite Should Take to Protect their Family, Friends, and Neighbors from COVID-19, § 3 (Businesses)

Recommendations: individuals should stay home; businesses strongly encouraged to facilitate remote work, limit staff and customers, require masks, limit persons on premises, clean high-touch areas; businesses 'must adopt protocols to clean and disinfect the premises in the event of a positive COVID-19 case'

Governor Tony Evers · Wisconsin (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Wisconsin
Level
State
Authority
Wis. Stat. § 323.12; Executive Order #90 (recited)
Issued
2020-11-10 Nov. 10, 2020
Effective
2020-11-10
End
With Executive Order #90's emergency (Nov. 21, 2020); all orders under Executive Order #90 held void (Fabick n.19) (read as 2020-11-21)
In force
Nov. 10, 2020 to Nov. 21, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q4
Limitation types
Stay-at-homeTelework mandateFace-covering requirementWorkplace rules
Addressees
  • all individuals
  • all businesses
  • employers
Functions reached
  • OF telework strongly encouraged
  • WF (staff excluded after symptoms or contact; no penalty for isolating)
  • EMP cleaning protocols after a positive case
  • CB (public told to stay home; travel to second homes should be avoided)
Collection
Standing duties: Wisconsin DUT-WI

Operative words

1. Staying home. All individuals should stay home as much as possible... 3. Businesses. All businesses are strongly encouraged to take steps to protect their staff, customers, and their communities. a. Limit staff and customers in offices, facilities, and stores. To the greatest extent possible, facilitate remote work and other measures that limit the number of individuals present at an office, facility, or store... b. Safe business recommendations when remote work is not possible. All businesses are strongly encouraged to take the following measures... i. Require masks. ii. Limit the number of people on the premises to no more than is strictly necessary to perform the business operation.... vi. Adopt policies to prevent staff from entering the premises or worksite if they display respiratory symptoms or have had contact with a person with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19. Employers may not penalize staff for isolating or quarantining because of symptoms or exposure to COVID-19. vii.... Businesses must adopt protocols to clean and disinfect the premises in the event of a positive COVID-19 case in the workplace.

Enforcement

Advisory in the main ('should'; 'strongly encouraged'); two mandatory sentences (3.b.vi, 3.b.vii) in imperative terms

Notes

The State's winter 2020-21 stay-home instrument; issued at the peak of Wisconsin's surge ('the nation's COVID-19 hot spot').

Retrieval note

The State library codes this order STAY TELE EMP OTHER; for the duties layer it is a recommendation whose content matched the standing duties of § 101.11 and the local orders then in force (Milwaukee Order 4.2, Ex. MET-MKE-031; Dane County Emergency Order #10, Ex. MET-MKE-014).