{"id":67,"date":"2020-03-03T12:09:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T16:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=67"},"modified":"2020-09-01T09:54:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T13:54:35","slug":"during-coronavirus-outbreak-should-employers-check-workers-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/03\/during-coronavirus-outbreak-should-employers-check-workers-temperatures\/","title":{"rendered":"During Coronavirus Outbreak, Should Employers Check Workers&#8217; Temperatures?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infrared forehead thermometers\u2014so-called thermometer guns\u2014are &#8220;notoriously unreliable,&#8221; according to medical experts quoted in an article in <em>The New York Times<\/em>, but that hasn&#8217;t kept the devices from flying off store shelves as coronavirus cases pop up around the world. Some employers are using them to take workers&#8217; temperatures, then sending the workers home if they have a fever.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Is it legal for employers to take workers&#8217; temperatures? If the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or a state or local health authority proclaims a pandemic has spread in an area, then yes, it is; otherwise, it is not, according to Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidance.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Employers are doing the right thing by considering all options potentially available to them in the event of a pandemic, including temperature testing,&#8221; said\u00a0<a title=\"Jonathan Segal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/jonathanasegal.html\">Jonathan Segal<\/a>, an attorney with Duane Morris in Philadelphia and New York City.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, visit the\u00a0<a title=\"Read the full article on the SHRM website.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shrm.org\/resourcesandtools\/legal-and-compliance\/employment-law\/pages\/coronavirus-checking-temperatures.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SHRM website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infrared forehead thermometers\u2014so-called thermometer guns\u2014are &#8220;notoriously unreliable,&#8221; according to medical experts quoted in an article in The New York Times, but that hasn&#8217;t kept the devices from flying off store shelves as coronavirus cases pop up around the world. Some employers are using them to take workers&#8217; temperatures, then sending the workers home if they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/03\/during-coronavirus-outbreak-should-employers-check-workers-temperatures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;During Coronavirus Outbreak, Should Employers Check Workers&#8217; Temperatures?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[646,10,31,682],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cdc","tag-employers","tag-employment-law","tag-testing"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}