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Labor/Employment

Apr. 15, 2020

Plan to restart business provides relief and hurdles for employers

The governor’s plan to require businesses to reshape their workspaces to give workers and customers more physical space between each other, as well as the governor’s warning that he may reinstate shelter-in-place orders with little notice, introduces challenges for both workers and employers, attorneys said in interviews Tuesday.

Plan to restart business provides relief and hurdles for employers
Gov. Gavin Newsom at a news conference in Oakland, March 8. (New York Times News Service)

For employment attorneys whose clients are struggling to stay afloat through the COVID-19 pandemic, the plans Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled Tuesday for gradually lifting the state's shelter in place order are both encouraging and daunting.

Newsom's plan to require businesses to reshape their workspaces to give workers and customers more physical space between each other, as well as the governor's warning that he may reinstate shelter-i...

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