The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Wisconsin
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Wis. Stat. § 323.12; Executive Order #90 (recited)
- Issued
- 2020-11-10 Nov. 10, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-11-10
- End
- With Executive Order #90's emergency (Nov. 21, 2020); all orders under Executive Order #90 held void (Fabick n.19) (read as 2020-11-21)
- In force
- Nov. 10, 2020 to Nov. 21, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Stay-at-homeTelework mandateFace-covering requirementWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- all individuals
- all businesses
- employers
- Functions reached
- OF telework strongly encouraged
- WF (staff excluded after symptoms or contact; no penalty for isolating)
- EMP cleaning protocols after a positive case
- CB (public told to stay home; travel to second homes should be avoided)
- Collection
- Standing duties: Wisconsin DUT-WI
Operative words
1. Staying home. All individuals should stay home as much as possible... 3. Businesses. All businesses are strongly encouraged to take steps to protect their staff, customers, and their communities. a. Limit staff and customers in offices, facilities, and stores. To the greatest extent possible, facilitate remote work and other measures that limit the number of individuals present at an office, facility, or store... b. Safe business recommendations when remote work is not possible. All businesses are strongly encouraged to take the following measures... i. Require masks. ii. Limit the number of people on the premises to no more than is strictly necessary to perform the business operation.... vi. Adopt policies to prevent staff from entering the premises or worksite if they display respiratory symptoms or have had contact with a person with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19. Employers may not penalize staff for isolating or quarantining because of symptoms or exposure to COVID-19. vii.... Businesses must adopt protocols to clean and disinfect the premises in the event of a positive COVID-19 case in the workplace.
Enforcement
Advisory in the main ('should'; 'strongly encouraged'); two mandatory sentences (3.b.vi, 3.b.vii) in imperative terms
Notes
The State's winter 2020-21 stay-home instrument; issued at the peak of Wisconsin's surge ('the nation's COVID-19 hot spot').
Retrieval noteThe State library codes this order STAY TELE EMP OTHER; for the duties layer it is a recommendation whose content matched the standing duties of § 101.11 and the local orders then in force (Milwaukee Order 4.2, Ex. MET-MKE-031; Dane County Emergency Order #10, Ex. MET-MKE-014).