{"id":"DUT-MS-017","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Mississippi","state":"MS","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Mississippi State Department of Health","authority":"Miss. Code Ann. §§ 41-3-15(4), 41-23-1, 41-23-5 (MSDH guidance function); the \u0027public health guidance\u0027 of S.B. 3049 § 2(k) (Ex. DUT-MS-010); the \u0027Mississippi State Department of Health\u0027s regulations and guidelines\u0027 of Executive Orders 1525, 1535, 1549 and 1551","instrument":"MSDH, COVID-19 Guidance for Restaurants and Other Workplaces (July 2021)","title":"COVID-19 Guidance for Restaurants and Other Workplaces: positive employees \u0027should isolate at home for a full 10 days\u0027; unvaccinated close contacts \u0027should quarantine for 14 days\u0027 or work as essential only with daily symptom monitoring and masks at all times; encourage vaccination and masks","dateIssued":"2021-08-26","effective":"2021-07","end":"revised thereafter","startDate":"2021-08-26","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["EMP","QUAR","MASK"],"addressees":["employers (restaurants and other workplaces)"],"clause":"If you have an employee that tests positive for COVID-19, o The positive employee should isolate at home for a full 10 days.... Unvaccinated close contacts should quarantine for 14 days.... Unvaccinated close contacts to COVID-19 cases may continue to work if you deem them essential as long as they monitor for symptoms daily, remain asymptomatic, and wear a mask at all times while at work.","enforcement":"None of its own; through the shield, loss of immunity; through 29 U.S.C. § 654(a)(1), OSHA citation","functions":[],"notes":"As guidance (\u0027should\u0027), it directs employers to remove positive employees for ten days, to identify and quarantine unvaccinated close contacts for fourteen days (or retain them as essential only under daily monitoring and universal masking), to consider additional mitigation when multiple cases compromise safe operation, and to encourage vaccination and masks; it refers employers to CDC business guidance. Its compulsory force in the third quarter of 2021 came from the liability shield\u0027s condition (Ex. DUT-MS-010) and the OSH Act general duty clause (Ex. DUT-AL-009), and, for the isolated employee, from the State Health Officer\u0027s isolation authority (Exs. DUT-MS-006, DUT-MS-008, DUT-MS-019).","sourceUrl":"https://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/resources/15099.pdf","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20210826025408/https://msdh.ms.gov/msdhsite/_static/resources/15099.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":144386,"grade":"primary","character":"recommendation_only","description":"","collection":"DUT-MS","url":"/library/DUT-MS-017","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-MS-017","citation":"Mississippi State Department of Health, MSDH, COVID-19 Guidance for Restaurants and Other Workplaces (July 2021) (Aug. 26, 2021) (Ex. DUT-MS-017)","stateName":"Mississippi","related":["DUT-MS-010","DUT-AL-009","DUT-MS-006","DUT-MS-008","DUT-MS-019","DUT-MS-018","DUT-MS-012"]}