employers are currently allowed to take employee temperatures as they physically enter the workplace. In addition, employers may administer COVID-19 tests to employees before permitting entrance. For health and safety reasons, employers are currently allowed to deny entry of individuals that have CO...
CDC Return-to-Work Guidance Emphasizes Symptoms Over Testing Author: David B. Weisenfeld, XpertHR Legal Editor August 6, 2020 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently updated its guidance for when it is safe for workers diagnosed with COVID-19 to return to work. Under ...
President Biden’s chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci on Monday said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) decision to cut its recommended isolation time for people infected with COVID-19 who are asymptomatic will allow people to get back to work more quickly. The decision ...
With the adoption of the CDC’s guidance, the most significant change for New York healthcare employers is that there is no longer a distinction between vaccinated and unvaccinated healthcare workers when it comes to returning to work following exposure to COVID-19. Work restrictions are not ...
Be sure your workforce has the most current information regarding COVID-19, its symptoms and transmission, and the vaccine. Also be sure to provide all communication in multiple languages for a multilingual workforce. Ultimately, COVID workplace safety is at the core of any employer’s operations...
One of the of the most important questions in managing a hospital's response to the COVID-19 pandemic is determining when healthcare workers infected with COVID-19 can return to the job. Recently, investigators from Mass General Brigham (MGB) assessed th
Returning to the workplace has been on our mind since the office shut down in early March due to the COVID 19 pandemic. Who would have thought that the desire to work-from-home (WFH) everyday would manifest the way it did nearly nine months ago? Navigating the challenges and benefits ...
For example, Dow, whose return-to-work plan we’ve highlighted in ourReturn Ready playbook, established Crisis Management Teams (CMTs) to determine and declare COVID-19 alert levels, and to be involved in decision-making and monitoring across locations. ...
As the population fully vaccinated against COVID-19 grows, more employers are asking employees to come back into the office. But while some employees may welcome the return to on-site work, one-third of respondents in a new McKinsey survey1 said their return to work has had a negative impa...
The uptick in Covid cases, as well as new CDC guidance, could be a blow to employers planning to bring office employees back to the workplace in the fall.