As the COVID-19 problem grows, employers will face challenges on a variety of workplace issues. Health experts anticipate more travel restrictions, business suspensions or closings, suspension of schools, and employee absences. Now is the time for employers to plan for such possibilities.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued its Interim Guidance for Businesses and Employers to Plan and Respond to Coronavirus Disease. The California Department of Health maintains a website that provides updates on the Coronavirus disease, which can be found at the following webpage:
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunizatioii/nCOV2019.aspx
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California has required employers to “indemnify” employees for “necessary expenditures or losses incurred by the employee in direct consequence of the discharge of his or her duties, or of his or her obedience to the directions of the employer” in substantially the same terms since 1937 under Labor Code § 2802.
