Revised FAQs Include How to Handle Vaccinated Employees Exposed to COVID-19
Yesterday, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health updated its FAQ post on the COVID-19 Emergency Testing Standards, applying Executive Order N-84-20 and the new California Department of Public Health COVID-19 Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated Individuals. These revisions and additions to the FAQ clearly establish that employers do not need to exclude fully vaccinated employees from the workplace if they are exposed to COVID-19, as long as they remain asymptomatic.
The revisions also clarify that a 10-day quarantine period and exclusion from work applies when an unvaccinated employee is exposed to COVID-19; however a 14-day period is still recommended. The FAQ provide further support and a valid business reason for employers to ask about employees’ vaccination status, which the DFEH and EEOC have already advised is permissible.
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On November 30, 2020, California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, more commonly known as Cal/OSHA, adopted COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) for California. Among other topics, the ETS required that employers develop a written COVID-19 Prevention Program and provided guidance on how employers should address COVID-19 cases and outbreaks in the workplace. Since Cal/OSHA issued its ETS, the California workplace landscape has changed dramatically, with large-scale vaccinations for all ages and employees returning to work across the state.
On May 7, 2021, Cal/OSHA submitted significant proposed revisions to the ETS, which the Cal/OSHA Standards Board will consider at its May 20, 2021, meeting. The proposed revisions include changes across almost the entire ETS regulatory landscape, including the following:
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While many industries made rapid changes to keep employees safe and slow the spread of COVID-19, fast food workers just kept reporting in person to their jobs throughout the pandemic. Facing significant risk from the virus, as well as from customers raging against mask mandates, workers have clung to guidelines around facial coverings, social distancing and sanitization for protection. But according to California workers who filed more than 100 official health and safety complaints with governmental oversight agencies over the course of the pandemic, McDonald’s and a handful of other fast food chains disregarded pandemic safety precautions repeatedly, even while franchises accepted Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans from the U.S. Small Business Association’s COVID-19 program.
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