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Federal
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Recommended. Employers should consider conducting daily in-person or virtual health checks (e.g., symptom and temperature screening) of employees before they enter the facility, in accordance with state and local public health authorities and occupational health services.
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Recommended. Employers should consider conducting daily in-person or virtual health checks (e.g., symptom and temperature screening) of employees before they enter the facility, in accordance with state and local public health authorities and occupational health services.
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Alabama
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Recommended. "Best practice": employers should take temperatures onsite with a no-touch thermometer each day upon a person’s arrival at work. "Minimum practice": an employee may take his or her temperature before arriving. In either case, a normal temperature does not exceed 100.4F.
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Recommended. Employers should screen all employees reporting to work for COVID-19 symptoms with specified questions.
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Alaska
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No requirement
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No requirement
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Arizona
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No requirement
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No requirement
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Arkansas
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No requirement
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No requirement
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California
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No requirement
NOTE: Some California localities may have provisions concerning employee temperature screenings. Please check with your Littler attorney for additional information about your particular jurisdiction.
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Required. Employers shall develop and implement a process for screening employees for and responding to employees with COVID-19 symptoms. The employer may ask employees to evaluate their own symptoms before reporting to work. If the employer conducts screening at the workplace, the employer shall ensure that face coverings are used during screening by both screeners and employees and, if temperatures are measured, that non-contact thermometers are used.
For employer-provided transportation to and from work, employers shall develop, implement, and maintain effective procedures for screening and excluding drivers and riders with COVID-19 symptoms prior to boarding shared transportation.
NOTE: Some California localities may have provisions concerning employee health screenings. Please check with your Littler attorney for additional information about your particular jurisdiction.
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Colorado
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Recommended. Employers are strongly encouraged to follow the best practices for disease mitigation found in CDPHE sector guidance. The sector guidance for most industries calls for symptom screening and temperature checks.
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Recommended. Employers are strongly encouraged to follow the best practices for disease mitigation found in CDPHE sector guidance. The sector guidance for most industries calls for symptom screening and temperature checks.
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Connecticut
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No requirement
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Required for personal care services, retail, restaurants, and office-based businesses. These employers must ask employees resuming on-premises work to confirm they have not experienced COVID-19 CDC-defined symptoms and to monitor their own symptoms, including cough, shortness of breath, or any two of the additional symptoms enumerated in the guidance.
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Delaware
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No requirement
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No requirement
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District of Columbia
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No requirement
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Recommended. Businesses can consider screening employees for symptoms before shifts. Screening can be done by attestation before arrival or on-site.
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Florida
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No requirement
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No requirement
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Georgia
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No requirement
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Required for restaurants, bars, banquet facilities, private event facilities, and private reception venues where food is served. Employers must screen and evaluate employees who exhibit symptoms of COVID-19. Employers must require employees who exhibit symptoms to seek medical attention and not report to work.
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Hawaii
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No requirement
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No requirement
NOTE: At least one Hawaii locality may have provisions concerning employee health screenings. Please check with your Littler attorney for additional information about your particular jurisdiction.
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Idaho
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No requirement
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Recommended. Employers should include other practices appropriate for specific types of businesses where appropriate, such as screening of employees for illness and exposures upon work entry.
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Illinois
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Recommended for food and meat processing facilities. Employers should screen and monitor workers, including fever checks and symptom checks.
NOTE: While the guidance suggests these provisions are guidelines, the state attorney general takes the position that the provisions, along with the other minimum health and safety guidelines, are mandatory.
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Recommended. Employers should conduct in-person screening of employees upon entry into workplace and mid-shift screening to verify no presence of COVID-19 symptoms.
NOTE: While the guidance suggests these provisions are guidelines, the state attorney general takes the position that the provisions, along with the other minimum health and safety guidelines, are mandatory. In addition, at least one Illinois locality may have provisions concerning employee health screenings. Please check with your Littler attorney for additional information about your particular jurisdiction.
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Indiana
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Recommended for reopening businesses but not required.
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Required. Open businesses must conduct employee health screenings.
NOTE: Some Indiana localities may have provisions concerning employee health screenings. Please check with your Littler attorney for additional information about your particular jurisdiction.
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Iowa
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No requirement
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No requirement
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Kansas
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Recommended. Employers should monitor employees' temperatures regularly. The state provides a template screening form for logging symptoms.
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Recommended. Employers should monitor employees' symptoms regularly. The state provides a template screening form for logging symptoms.
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Kentucky
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Recommended. Employers should require employees to undergo daily temperature checks and health assessments for specified symptoms. These assessments may be either self-administered or administered by the business prior to workplace entry. Self-administered assessments may performed at home.
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Recommended. Employers should require employees to undergo daily temperature checks and health assessments for specified symptoms. These assessments may be either self-administered or administered by the business prior to workplace entry. Self-administered assessments may performed at home.
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Louisiana
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Recommended. Employers should measure each employee’s temperature and assess symptoms prior to the start of work. Ideally, temperature checks should occur before entering the facility.
NOTE: At least one Louisiana locality may have provisions concerning employee temperature screenings. Please check with your Littler attorney for additional information about your particular jurisdiction.
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Recommended. Employers should measure each employee’s temperature and assess symptoms prior to the start of work.
NOTE: At least one Louisiana locality may have provisions concerning employee health screenings. Please check with your Littler attorney for additional information about your particular jurisdiction.
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Maine
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No requirement
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No requirement
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Maryland
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Recommended. Employers should implement a daily screening process for workers and other personnel which include CDC or MDH recommended health questions and consider temperature testing.
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Recommended. Employers should implement a daily screening process for workers and other personnel which include CDC or MDH recommended health questions and consider temperature testing.
NOTE: At least one Maryland locality may have provisions concerning employee health screenings. Please check with your Littler attorney for additional information about your particular jurisdiction.
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Massachusetts
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No requirement
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Required for office spaces, personal care services, laboratories, gyms and fitness centers, lodging establishments, manufacturing, restaurants, retail stores, and "sectors not otherwise addressed." Facilities must screen workers at each shift by ensuring that workers are not experiencing any of the specified symptoms and have not had close contact with an individual diagnosed with COVID-19.
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Michigan
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No requirement
NOTE: At least one Michigan locality may have provisions concerning employee temperature screenings. Please check with your Littler attorney for additional information about your particular jurisdiction.
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Required for all businesses. Conduct a daily entry self-screening protocol for all employees or contractors entering the workplace, including, at a minimum, a questionnaire covering symptoms and suspected or confirmed exposure to people with possible COVID-19.
NOTE: At least one Michigan locality may have provisions concerning employee health screenings. Please check with your Littler attorney for additional information about your particular jurisdiction.
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Minnesota
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No requirement
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Required. Employers must establish a health screening process for all people entering the business, entity, or venue, including customers, clients, and visitors. Visitor and Employee Health Screening Checklist.
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Mississippi
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No requirement
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Recommended. Employers are encouraged to implement screening protocols for employees and volunteers at the beginning of each shift.
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Missouri
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No requirement.
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No requirement.
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Montana
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Recommended. Businesses should make reasonable efforts to develop and implement appropriate policies based on industry best practices regarding temperature checks and symptom screening.
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Recommended. Businesses should make reasonable efforts to develop and implement appropriate policies based on industry best practices regarding temperature checks and symptom screening.
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No requirement
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Recommended. Employers are strongly encouraged to complete employee pre-screening (e.g. assess for any symptoms consistent with COVID-19) prior to starting work.
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Nevada
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No requirement
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Required. The following employers must perform a daily symptom assessment, including monitoring for fever, cough, and trouble breathing: agriculture, appliance and furniture showrooms, auto dealerships, banks and financial services, personal care services, restaurants and food and drink establishments, general office operations, retail and consumer services, and transportation, couriers, and warehousing.
Recommended for all employers: have employees perform self-assessments for COVID-19-like symptoms each day.
Recommended for grocery employers. Employers should monitor employees for signs of illness and require sick workers to stay home.
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New Hampshire
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No requirement
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Recommended. Employers should consider active screening or daily self-attestation of staff and volunteers each day before work for fever, symptoms of COVID-19, or risk factors for exposure, especially for those who provide services requiring close prolonged contact between staff and customers (people are within 6 feet of each other for 10 minutes or longer).
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New Jersey
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Required for agriculture employers. Employer is to screen workers for symptoms, including temperature and symptom checks prior to work shifts.
Required for restaurants and other food and beverage establishments. Employers must conduct daily health checks (e.g., temperature screening and/or symptom checking) of employees safely and respectfully, and in accordance with any applicable privacy laws and regulations.
Required for gyms and fitness centers and high-touch amusement and recreation activities: a facility shall conduct a temperature screening and questionnaire of staff and clients upon entrance to the facility. Any individual who is found to have a temperature of 100.4 or above, or who answers yes to any of the symptom screening questions, shall be denied entrance to the facility.
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Required for all employers. Prior to each shift, conduct daily health checks of employees, such as temperature screenings, visual symptom checking, self-assessment checklists, and/or health questionnaires, consistent with CDC guidance, including latest CDC guidance regarding COVID-19 symptoms, consistent with the confidentiality requirements of the ADA, NJLAD and any other applicable laws, and consistent with any guidance from the EEOC and the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights.
Required for agriculture employers. Employer is to screen workers for symptoms, including temperature and symptom checks prior to work shifts.
Required for restaurants and other food and beverage establishments. Employers must conduct daily health checks (e.g., temperature screening and/or symptom checking) of employees safely and respectfully, and in accordance with any applicable privacy laws and regulations.
Required for gyms and fitness centers and high-touch amusement and recreation activities: a facility shall conduct a temperature screening and questionnaire of staff and clients upon entrance to the facility. Any individual who is found to have a temperature of 100.4 or above, or who answers yes to any of the symptom screening questions, shall be denied entrance to the facility.
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New Mexico
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No requirement
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Required. All employers must screen employees for symptoms before they enter the workplace each day, verbally or with a written or text/app-based questionnaire.
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New York
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Recommended generally as part of an employer's mandatory health screening assessment.
Commercial building owners, retail store owners and those authorized on their behalf to manage public places within their buildings and businesses shall have the discretion to require individuals to undergo temperature checks prior to being allowed admittance, as well as the discretion to deny admittance to (i) any individual who refuses to undergo such a temperature check and (ii) any individual whose temperature is above that proscribed by New York State Department of Health Guidelines.
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Required. Reopening businesses must adopt the NY Forward Safety Plan, which includes implementing a mandatory health screening assessment (e.g., questionnaire, temperature check) before employees begin work each day and for essential visitors. Assessment responses must be reviewed every day and the review must be documented.
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North Carolina
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No requirement
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Recommended. Employers should conduct daily symptom screening of employees at entrance to workplace and immediately send symptomatic workers home to isolate. Screening questionnaire here.
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North Dakota
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Recommended at the orange risk level for restaurants, banquet and event venues, and personal care services. Screen employees for symptoms, including temperature checks.
Department of Health Employee Screening Tool
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Recommended at the orange risk level for restaurants, banquet and event venues, and personal care services. Screen employees for symptoms, including temperature checks.
Department of Health Employee Screening Tool
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Ohio
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Recommended for restaurant employees: the daily health self-assessment should include taking temperature with a thermometer.
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Required. Employees must conduct daily health self-assessments and must not report to work if symptomatic.
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Oklahoma
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No requirement
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No requirement
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Oregon
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Recommended. Employers should consider regular health checks (e.g., temperature and respiratory symptom screening) or symptom self-report of employees, if job-related and consistent with business necessity.
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Recommended. Employers should consider regular health checks (e.g., temperature and respiratory symptom screening) or symptom self-report of employees, if job-related and consistent with business necessity.
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Pennsylvania
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No requirement
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Required. All businesses conducting in-person operations must screen workers for symptoms before they start work.
NOTE: At least one Pennsylvania locality may have provisions concerning employee health screenings. Please check with your Littler attorney for additional information about your particular jurisdiction.
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Puerto Rico
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No requirement
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Required. Employers must implement a protocol to monitor and screen personnel prior to entering the workplace, along with the procedures to follow in case they detect an employee with symptoms.
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Rhode Island
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No requirement
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Required. Businesses must implement and ensure compliance with screening all individuals entering the establishment at any time for any reason including, at minimum: (1) visual assessment, self-screening, or a written questionnaire, or a combination of any of these screening methods; and (2) at all entrances to an establishment, notice that all individuals entering must be screened or self-screened, and to not enter if they are COVID-19 positive, have COVID-19 symptoms, or have had close contact with a COVID-19-positive individual.
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South Carolina
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Recommended for restaurant employees. The screening process should include temperature taking.
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Recommended for restaurant employees. Employers shall conduct, prior to or at the start of each shift, an employee survey and screening process.
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South Dakota
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No requirement
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Recommended. Employers can ask employees screening questions when they report to work and keep a daily screening log.
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Tennessee
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No requirement
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Recommended. Screen employees with questions about symptoms.
NOTE: At least one Tennessee locality may have provisions concerning employee health screenings. Please check with your Littler attorney for additional information about your particular jurisdiction.
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Texas
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No requirement
NOTE: Some Texas localities may have provisions concerning employee temperature screenings. Please check with your Littler attorney for additional information about your particular jurisdiction.
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No requirement
NOTE: Some Texas localities may have provisions concerning employee health screenings. Please check with your Littler attorney for additional information about your particular jurisdiction.
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Utah
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Recommended for all employers: screen employees and customers for signs of COVID-19 before they enter the workplace, including temperature checks if feasible.
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Recommended for all employers: screen employees and customers for signs of COVID-19 before they enter the workplace, including temperature checks if feasible.
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Vermont
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No requirement
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No provisions. As of 5/1/2021, organizations must have policies in place to remind employees to stay home if they have signs and symptoms of COVID-19. No symptomatic or COVID-19 positive workers are allowed on site.
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Virginia
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Recommended generally. Employees should also self-monitor their symptoms by self-taking of temperature to check for fever before reporting toork. For employers with established occupational health programs, employers can consider measuring temperature and assessing symptoms of employees prior to starting work/before each shift.
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Required for employers with hazards or job tasks classified as "medium," "high," or "very high." Prior to the commencement of each work shift, prescreening or surveying shall be required to verify each covered employee does not have signs or symptoms of COVID-19.
Recommended generally. Prior to a shift and on days employees are scheduled to work, employers should screen employees prior to starting work. Employees should also self-monitor their symptoms by self-taking of temperature to check for fever and utilizing the questions provided in the VDH Interim Guidance for COVID -19 Daily Screening of Employees before reporting to work. For employers with established occupational health programs, employers can consider measuring temperature and assessing symptoms of employees prior to starting work/before each shift.
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Washington
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No requirement
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Required. All employers must screen employees for signs/symptoms of COVID-19 at the start of their shift.
NOTE: At least one Washington locality may have provisions concerning employee health screenings. Please check with your Littler attorney for additional information about your particular jurisdiction.
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West Virginia
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Recommended for restaurant and bar employers and lodging establishments. Employees are encouraged to take their temperature prior to leaving for work or upon arrival. If their temperature measures over 100F, the employee should notify management and not begin work.
Required for larger retail stores and casinos and gyms/fitness centers. The screening process must include temperature checks.
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Required for certain employers. Restaurant and bar employers and casinos and lodging establishments and retail establishments and gyms/fitness centers must monitor their employees daily by asking screening questions about common symptoms of COVID-19.
Small businesses are recommended to screen employees for COVID-19 symptoms daily using a series of questions.
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Wisconsin
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No requirement
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No requirement
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Wyoming
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No requirement
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No requirement
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