{"id":69,"date":"2020-03-05T12:14:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T16:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=69"},"modified":"2020-08-31T10:53:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:53:49","slug":"when-may-employers-require-workers-to-self-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/05\/when-may-employers-require-workers-to-self-quarantine\/","title":{"rendered":"When May Employers Require Workers to Self-Quarantine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring break is near, and globe-trotting employees soon may return to the workplace from countries that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and State Department have classified as areas where travelers could be at high risk for contracting\u00a0<a title=\"COVID-19\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/site\/covid-19_coronavirus_disease_2019.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Employers can require workers to stay away from the workplace during the maximum incubation period of the virus\u2014thought to be approximately 14 days\u2014but may decide to not be so strict with employees returning from countries with low-risk assessment levels or low travel-alert levels.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Employers shouldn\u2019t promise employees that they will be paid while in quarantine, said\u00a0<a title=\"Jonathan Segal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/jonathanasegal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Segal<\/a>, an attorney with Duane Morris in Philadelphia and New York City. Whether the waiting period is paid will depend on whether work can be performed at home and the nature of the job classification, such as exempt or nonexempt. Some employers are saying that if employees must wait at home before returning to work, they will still be paid, but not every business can afford that, Segal said.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, visit the\u00a0<a title=\"Read the article on the SHRM.org website\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shrm.org\/resourcesandtools\/legal-and-compliance\/employment-law\/pages\/coronavirus-self-quarantine.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SHRM.org website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring break is near, and globe-trotting employees soon may return to the workplace from countries that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and State Department have classified as areas where travelers could be at high risk for contracting\u00a0COVID-19. Employers can require workers to stay away from the workplace during the maximum incubation period &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/05\/when-may-employers-require-workers-to-self-quarantine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When May Employers Require Workers to Self-Quarantine?&#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":[10,31,25],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-employers","tag-employment-law","tag-quarantine"],"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","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}