CatMan
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- Joined
- Apr 12, 2005
- Location
- Brandon, MS
Do you have a plan if one of your employees comes up with Coronavirus? I'm referring to an actual plan. Some policy that is written down somewhere. My HR has been abysmal with directing us. They say that things are changing so fast (and they are), that it's too dynamic to write a policy. I get it.
I'm also fully aware and expect to face situation in the not to distant future where the coronavirus hits very close to work.
Here, if an employee tests positive or shows symptoms, then he's done for two weeks. It gets stickier when it's not actually the employee.
Possible (likely) scenarios.
1. Someone in the employee's household is showing symptoms of the virus. It's almost certain that the employee is exposed. Do you still let them come to work? Are you going to penalize the employee for something that happened to someone else?
2. Someone in the employee's household is has been around someone who has the virus. So now your employee has been exposed to an exposed. Do you let him come to work? How long does this "friend of a friend of a friend" thing go?
I'm not sure it's that unfair to the employee to be on vacation for 2 weeks. I read where the CARES act that was recently passed will pay up to an additional $600 per week on top of your states regular unemployment up to 100% of your pay. That would make most of my guys whole.
And what about presymptomatic ? I could have it for all I know, and just not showing symptoms yet. The testings down here take a few days before you get the results back. Are you guilty until proven innocent those few days?
Go back to my scenarios. Let's say you didn't have the virus when you got tested, but you've spent those few days waiting on test results at home. I figure the chances of you getting the virus are going up every day. Meanwhile your test comes back negative, but it's more likely you have the virus now.
Can we do anything to be completely safe from a physical and legal standpoint?
I'm also fully aware and expect to face situation in the not to distant future where the coronavirus hits very close to work.
Here, if an employee tests positive or shows symptoms, then he's done for two weeks. It gets stickier when it's not actually the employee.
Possible (likely) scenarios.
1. Someone in the employee's household is showing symptoms of the virus. It's almost certain that the employee is exposed. Do you still let them come to work? Are you going to penalize the employee for something that happened to someone else?
2. Someone in the employee's household is has been around someone who has the virus. So now your employee has been exposed to an exposed. Do you let him come to work? How long does this "friend of a friend of a friend" thing go?
I'm not sure it's that unfair to the employee to be on vacation for 2 weeks. I read where the CARES act that was recently passed will pay up to an additional $600 per week on top of your states regular unemployment up to 100% of your pay. That would make most of my guys whole.
And what about presymptomatic ? I could have it for all I know, and just not showing symptoms yet. The testings down here take a few days before you get the results back. Are you guilty until proven innocent those few days?
Go back to my scenarios. Let's say you didn't have the virus when you got tested, but you've spent those few days waiting on test results at home. I figure the chances of you getting the virus are going up every day. Meanwhile your test comes back negative, but it's more likely you have the virus now.
Can we do anything to be completely safe from a physical and legal standpoint?