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Ex. WA-044 Order Primary source read

Proclamation 20-67

Food Production Workers Paid Leave

Governor Jay Inslee · Washington (State)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Washington
Level
State
Authority
RCW 43.06.220(1)(h); chapters 38.08, 38.52, 43.06 RCW
Issued
2020-08-13 Aug. 13, 2020
Effective
2020-08-18
End
2020-11-13 (by its terms: 'between August 18, 2020, and November 13, 2020'); 'in effect until the earlier of its termination or the expiration of Proclamation 20-25' (read as 2020-11-13)
In force
Aug. 18, 2020 to Nov. 13, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q32020 Q4
Limitation types
Workplace rulesSupply chain
Addressees
  • food production employers: orchards, fields, dairies, fruit- and vegetable-packing warehouses, meat and seafood processors and packers, farm labor contractors
Functions reached
  • FP farm production
  • PK packing and processing
  • LB labor
  • WF
  • HR
Collection
Washington WA

Operative words

I hereby modify those provisions of Proclamations 20-25 et seq. applicable to essential workers and workplaces to prohibit any food production employer from continuing to operate between August 18, 2020, and November 13, 2020, unless the food production employer ("Employer") provides its workers ("Covered Workers") with emergency supplemental paid sick leave ("Paid Leave") for a qualifying event subject to the following terms

Enforcement

RCW 43.06.220(5)

Notes

Conditioned the right to operate on providing COVID-19 paid leave to domestic, seasonal, migrant and H-2A workers.