Health Screening and Medical Management
Medical Removal From the Workplace
3. If you must notify an employee of close contact to a person at work who is COVID-19 positive, immediately remove that employee and either:
- Keep the employee removed for 14 days; or
Keep employees who refuse to test removed from the workplace.
- Keep the employee removed and provide a COVID-19 test at least five days after the exposure at no cost to the employee.
- If the test results are negative, the employee may return to work after seven days following exposure.
- If the test results are positive, keep the employee removed until they meet the return to work criteria.
- If the employee refuses to take the PCR test, continue to keep the employee removed from the workplace. You are not obligated to provide medical removal protection benefits. Absent undue hardship, you must make reasonable accommodations for employees who cannot take the test for religious or disability-related medical reasons.
You are not required to remove an employee who would otherwise be required to be removed if the employee does not experience the symptoms and has:
- been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (i.e., 2 weeks or more following the final dose); or
- had COVID-19 and recovered within the past 3 months.
Any time you require an employee to be removed from the workplace for any reason under this section, you may require the employee to work remotely or in isolation if suitable work is available.
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2-3. You are not required to remove an employee if they are symptom free and meet what criteria?
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