The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (independent federal agency)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 42 U.S.C. 12116
- Issued
- 2020-03-21 Mar. 21, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-21 (guidance) (read as 2020-03-21)
- End
- Continuing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Mar. 21, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesOther
- Addressees
- all ADA-covered employers
- Functions reached
- HR screening and exclusion of symptomatic workers
- WF
- OP
- Collection
- Federal labor and immigration agencies AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION
Operative words
Pandemic Preparedness in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act. This guidance document was issued upon approval of the Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.... ADA/GINA (the March 2020 update states that the COVID-19 pandemic meets the 'direct threat' standard, permitting employers to measure employees' body temperature, ask about symptoms, and send symptomatic employees home)
Enforcement
ADA enforcement; guidance non-binding
Notes
The Commission's 'direct threat' determination is the legal predicate on which every employer screening program of 2020-2021 rested.
Retrieval noteParenthetical paraphrases the direct-threat passage; quote from the exhibit.