Excluding COVID-19 Cases
When an employee designated as a COVID-19 case is in the workplace, the employer can limit transmission by:
- Ensuring that COVID-19 cases are excluded from the workplace until your return-to-work requirements are met.
COVID-19 cases need to stay at home.
- Excluding employees with COVID-19 exposure from the workplace for 14 days after the last known COVID-19 exposure to a COVID-19 case.
- Continuing and maintaining an employee’s earnings, seniority, and all other employee rights and benefits when it can be demonstrated that the COVID-19 exposure is work-related.
- Providing employees at the time of exclusion with information on available benefits.
Exclusion of COVID-19 Cases
Where we have a COVID-19 case in our workplace, we will limit transmission by:
- Ensuring that COVID-19 cases are excluded from the workplace until our return-to-work requirements are met.
- Excluding employees with COVID-19 exposure from the workplace for 14 days after the last known COVID-19 exposure to a COVID-19 case.
- Continuing and maintaining an employee’s earnings, seniority, and all other employee rights and benefits whenever we've demonstrated that the COVID-19 exposure is work related. This will be accomplished by [describe how your workplace will accomplish this, such as by employer-provided employee sick leave benefits, payments from public sources or other means of maintaining earnings, rights, and benefits, where permitted by law and when not covered by workers’ compensation].
- Providing employees at the time of exclusion with information on available benefits.
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3-3. When an employee has been exposed to COVID-19 in the workplace, how can transmission be limited?
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