{"id":"MN-015","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Minnesota","state":"MN","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Governor Tim Walz","authority":"Minn. Stat. §§ 12.21, 12.32; ch. 182 recited","instrument":"Emergency Executive Order 20-40, Allowing Workers in Non-Critical Sectors to Return to Safe Workplaces (Apr. 23, 2020)","title":"Allowing Workers in Non-Critical Sectors to Return to Safe Workplaces","dateIssued":"2020-04-23","effective":"2020-04-26 11:59 p.m. (workers return no sooner than Apr. 27, 2020)","end":"folded into EO 20-48 (May 4, 2020) and EO 20-56 (May 18, 2020)","startDate":"2020-04-26","endDate":"2020-05-04","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["EMP","TELE","COND"],"addressees":["industrial and manufacturing businesses, wholesale trade, warehousing","office-based businesses not customer facing"],"clause":"1. Notwithstanding the requirement to stay at home in Executive Order 20-33, beginning no sooner than April 26, 2020 at 11:59 pm, workers for Non-Critical Exempt Businesses, as defined in this Executive Order, may return to work upon their Non-Critical Exempt Business\u0027s completion of the requirements set forth in this Executive Order.... 3.... As ordered in Executive Order 20-33, all workers who can work from home must do so.... 5.a. Industrial and manufacturing businesses.... This category includes wholesale trade, warehousing, and places of employment in which goods are in the process of being created. This category does not include customer-facing retail environments... 5.b. Office-based businesses.... where workers do their work within an office space, at their desk, and their work is primarily not customer facing... 6.... Before workers may return to work at a Non-Critical Exempt Business under this Executive Order, the Non-Critical Exempt Business must establish and implement a COVID-19 Preparedness Plan... i. Require work from home whenever possible. All Plans must ensure that all workers who can work from home continue to do so.","enforcement":"Para. 9: worker willful violation misdemeanor ($1,000 or 90 days); \u0027Any business owner, manager, or supervisor who requires or encourages any of their employees to violate this Executive Order is guilty of a gross misdemeanor and upon conviction must be punished by a fine not to exceed $3,000 or by imprisonment for not more than a year\u0027; Attorney General and city and county attorneys may seek civil penalties \u0027up to $25,000 per occurrence from businesses and injunctive relief\u0027 (sec. 8.31); DLI citations, civil penalties or closure orders (para. 8)","functions":["PF production floor","WH warehouse","OF office premises","EN engineering and office staff","WF","HR training on the Plan"],"notes":"Establishes the certified, posted, trained COVID-19 Preparedness Plan that every reopening Minnesota business carried until June 30, 2021; Plan Guidance published by DEED and DLI incorporated by reference.","sourceUrl":"https://www.leg.mn.gov/archive/execorders/20-40.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":376788,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"DUT-MN","url":"/library/MN-015","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MN-015","citation":"Governor Tim Walz, Emergency Executive Order 20-40, Allowing Workers in Non-Critical Sectors to Return to Safe Workplaces (Apr. 23, 2020) (Ex. MN-015)","stateName":"Minnesota","related":["MN-020","MN-022","MN-025","MN-027"]}