{"id":"MET-CIN-030","kind":"order","level":"city","jurisdiction":"City of Cincinnati, Ohio","state":"OH","metro":"CIN","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Cincinnati City Council (Emergency Ordinance; Mayor Cranley, City Solicitor Boggs Muething)","authority":"Ohio Const. Art. XVIII sec. 3 (recited); Charter Art. II sec. 6","instrument":"Emergency Ordinance No. 0141-2020 (COVID-19 Job Protections)","title":"Establishing that employers may not retaliate against covered employees for obeying appropriate orders or instructions to stay at home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic or for staying at home to care for a member of their household who has COVID-19 or has been ordered or instructed to stay at home","dateIssued":"2020-05-13","effective":"2020-05-13 (effective immediately)","end":"codified (no sunset)","startDate":"2020-05-13","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["EMP","QUAR"],"addressees":["every Employer with at least one Covered Employee in Cincinnati"],"clause":"Section 2. That an Employer shall not demote, terminate, or take adverse employment action against a Covered Employee for obeying an order issued by the Mayor, the Governor of Ohio, the Ohio Department of Health, or the Cincinnati Health Commissioner or the Cincinnati Board of Health, or in the case of subsections (a) or (b) below, a treating healthcare provider, requiring the Covered Employee to: (a) Remain at home while experiencing COVID-19 symptoms or sick with COVID-19... (b) Obey a quarantine order issued to the Covered Employee; (c) Obey an isolation order issued to the Covered Employee, including without limitation an order issued as a result of contact tracing.","enforcement":"Sec. 3: civil action for reinstatement, treble wages, actual damages, costs and attorney\u0027s fees; sec. 4: 30-day cure defense","functions":["WF workforce (compelled absence under quarantine and isolation orders; employer may not backfill by termination)","HR","OP"],"notes":"Employer-directed local law of general application in force through Q3 2021; it made every State, county and City stay-home, quarantine and isolation order operative against every Cincinnati employer\u0027s staffing.","sourceUrl":"https://cincinnatioh.legistar1.com/cincinnatioh/attachments/95c8bc05-6281-4f98-846e-79de4a059351.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":348060,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MET-CIN","url":"/library/MET-CIN-030","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MET-CIN-030","citation":"Cincinnati City Council (Emergency Ordinance; Mayor Cranley, City Solicitor Boggs Muething), Emergency Ordinance No. 0141-2020 (COVID-19 Job Protections) (May 13, 2020) (Ex. MET-CIN-030)","stateName":"Ohio","related":["MET-CIN-046","MET-CIN-031"]}