Follow-up on COVID 19 Call
Good afternoon,
Below is a link to guidance discussed on today's call regarding the FFCRA / EFMLEA: https://www.klc.org/userfiles/Families_First_Coronavirus_Response_Act_is_Now_Law4.13.20_(002)20200416105244.pdf
I have also attached sample emergency leave request forms, which were provided to me to share with the group.
Also, this is one of the questions which was not answered on today's call and wondering what the group thinks: Has anyone developed best practices for phrase 1 reopening of municipalities as to the taking of employees' temperatures and wearing masks for employees? In terms of wearing masks, if you're requiring it, will it be for the whole shift, only in common areas? What's the penalty for not following the rules?
Thanks for your responses on these questions.
Amanda
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Amanda Kellar
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Thanks to the group for setting me straight on how the first 10 days for
folks caring for schoolchildren is actually supposed to work. The employee
in question happens to be on monthly payroll, so he'll never know how badly
I had managed to screw it up.
David B. Miller, Board Attorney
Forrest County Board of Supervisors
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Subject: [Disasterrelief] Follow-up on COVID 19 Call
Good afternoon,
Below is a link to guidance discussed on today's call regarding the FFCRA /
EFMLEA:
<https://www.klc.org/userfiles/Families_First_Coronavirus_Response_Act_is_No
w_Law4.13.20_(002)20200416105244.pdf>
https://www.klc.org/userfiles/Families_First_Coronavirus_Response_Act_is_Now
Law4.13.20(002)20200416105244.pdf
I have also attached sample emergency leave request forms, which were
provided to me to share with the group.
Also, this is one of the questions which was not answered on today's call
and wondering what the group thinks: Has anyone developed best practices for
phrase 1 reopening of municipalities as to the taking of employees'
temperatures and wearing masks for employees? In terms of wearing masks, if
you're requiring it, will it be for the whole shift, only in common areas?
What's the penalty for not following the rules?
Thanks for your responses on these questions.
Amanda
Amanda Kellar
Deputy General Counsel / Director of Legal Advocacy
International Municipal Lawyers Association, Inc.
A 51 Monroe St., Suite 404, Rockville, MD, 20850
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Here's my quick 1.5 cents worth of comment-
We have not done protocols for Phase 1 yet, but are starting to think about
it and thus would be interested in this.
Our Governor did an essential services order and I created the
attached guide for a municipal client which had businesses within its
jurisdiction. It provides for taking temperatures and keeping records.
Might be a start.
I would think that the masks need to be worn the entire work time. For
non-compliance, it would be a disciplinary matter. Employer should issue
an appropriate order for compliance.
Thanks for everyone's help today.
Be well.
jim
James B. Lampke, Esq.
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On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 4:31 PM Amanda Kellar akellar@imla.org wrote:
Good afternoon,
Below is a link to guidance discussed on today’s call regarding the FFCRA
/ EFMLEA:
https://www.klc.org/userfiles/Families_First_Coronavirus_Response_Act_is_Now_Law4.13.20_(002)20200416105244.pdf
I have also attached sample emergency leave request forms, which were
provided to me to share with the group.
Also, this is one of the questions which was not answered on today’s call
and wondering what the group thinks: Has anyone developed best practices
for phrase 1 reopening of municipalities as to the taking of employees’
temperatures and wearing masks for employees? In terms of wearing masks,
if you’re requiring it, will it be for the whole shift, only in common
areas? What’s the penalty for not following the rules?
Thanks for your responses on these questions.
Amanda
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Amanda Kellar
Deputy General Counsel / Director of Legal Advocacy
International Municipal Lawyers Association, Inc.
A 51 Monroe St., Suite 404, Rockville, MD, 20850
http://www.facebook.com/IMLA-259977855541/
http://www.linkedin.com/company/international-municipal-lawyers-association-inc./
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For what it's worth, our HR director is adapting a template that she's gotten from SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) with the addition of CDC info.
Henry M Bernstein
Assistant Parish Attorney
Caddo Parish, Louisiana
(318) 226-6947
hbernstein@caddo.org
From: Disasterrelief disasterrelief-bounces@lists.imla.org On Behalf Of Amanda Kellar
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Subject: [Disasterrelief] Follow-up on COVID 19 Call
Good afternoon,
Below is a link to guidance discussed on today's call regarding the FFCRA / EFMLEA: https://www.klc.org/userfiles/Families_First_Coronavirus_Response_Act_is_Now_Law4.13.20_(002)20200416105244.pdf
I have also attached sample emergency leave request forms, which were provided to me to share with the group.
Also, this is one of the questions which was not answered on today's call and wondering what the group thinks: Has anyone developed best practices for phrase 1 reopening of municipalities as to the taking of employees' temperatures and wearing masks for employees? In terms of wearing masks, if you're requiring it, will it be for the whole shift, only in common areas? What's the penalty for not following the rules?
Thanks for your responses on these questions.
Amanda
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Amanda Kellar
Deputy General Counsel / Director of Legal Advocacy
International Municipal Lawyers Association, Inc.
A 51 Monroe St., Suite 404, Rockville, MD, 20850
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In Kansas City, we had intended to order a ton of thermometers to take employees' temperatures. However, our Health Director said that with so many cases of COVID being asymptomatic or having no fever but other symptoms, he feels that it was not worth the cost to take everyone's temperature. I had been concerned because it's a medical procedure and record and therefore must be confidential. Between that and access points, it would be a logistical nightmare. Only our first responders are having their temperature taken at the start of each shift, and that was started immediately (before we learned about the number of COVID patients without fever).
With regard to masks, we will not require our employees to wear masks, in part because we then feel we would have to provide them to all employees (repeatedly), but we are encouraging. We were concerned about the difficulty in disciplining employees, and we have so many employees, that we are confident we would be deluged with one employee reporting another who forgot to put her mask on before leaving her office etc. We are also putting up plexiglass and adding signage and floor tape for our forward facing employees' protection as they serve the general public. And we are putting signs everywhere about masks, social distancing, and limiting elevator use to no more than four people at a time.
We have 800 of our 4000 employees telecommuting right now. Some of those will be brought back, but many of us will be telecommuting as much as possible, and when we are brought back, it will likely be rotational to limit the number of people in the office at any given time. We are also trying to find ways to provide as many services as possible remotely, and doing things like moving our paper employment applications to the first floor of City Hall, so the public does not have to ride the elevator to HR's floor just to pick up an application. We are working to balance offering services electronically with the recognition that a segment of our population does not have easy access to computers.
We are in the early stages of planning; thankfully our local stay at home order is not set to expire until May 15.
Saskia C.M. Jacobse
Assistant City Attorney
(816) 513-3121
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Good afternoon,
Below is a link to guidance discussed on today’s call regarding the FFCRA / EFMLEA: https://www.klc.org/userfiles/Families_First_Coronavirus_Response_Act_is_Now_Law4.13.20_(002)20200416105244.pdfhttps://gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.klc.org%2Fuserfiles%2FFamilies_First_Coronavirus_Response_Act_is_Now_Law4.13.20_(002)20200416105244.pdf&data=02%7C01%7CSaskia.Jacobse%40kcmo.org%7C2ccb273e518a4268a46208d7ebb326a2%7Cec24091159794419a8ecc808b076019b%7C0%7C1%7C637237027125943700&sdata=EFTPHHtFzvlM%2BRyKzikNr1hj0GojHBQmFUUi887Llys%3D&reserved=0
I have also attached sample emergency leave request forms, which were provided to me to share with the group.
Also, this is one of the questions which was not answered on today’s call and wondering what the group thinks: Has anyone developed best practices for phrase 1 reopening of municipalities as to the taking of employees’ temperatures and wearing masks for employees? In terms of wearing masks, if you’re requiring it, will it be for the whole shift, only in common areas? What’s the penalty for not following the rules?
Thanks for your responses on these questions.
Amanda
[photo]
Amanda Kellar
Deputy General Counsel / Director of Legal Advocacy
International Municipal Lawyers Association, Inc.
A 51 Monroe St., Suite 404, Rockville, MD, 20850
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