Utah Businesses Forced Employees Sick With COVID-19 To Work

[RandySF]

Utah County executives released a statement this week confirming that almost half the employees — 48 percent — at an area business tested positive for the coronavirus. This wasn't bad luck but deliberate malice. The business “instructed employees to not follow quarantine guidelines and required staff who had tested positive to report to work." You might recall the halcyon days of three months ago when we believed paid sick leave was sufficient means to control the spread of COVID-19. We were so sick a nation that as a matter of course, workers often showed up at the job barely alive. That was considered the Yankee work ethic. In truth, it's capitalistic exploitation, and some companies apparently can't quit slave-driving even during a pandemic.

"During the tracing contacts conducted by the Utah County Health Department and Utah Department of Health, we found these businesses instructed employees to not follow quarantine guidelines after exposure to a confirmed case at work and required employees with a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis to still report to work," the statement said. "This is completely unacceptable and resulted in a temporary full closure for one business along with heightened requirements for future cleaning and inspections."

Another business in Utah County was equally shady and "did not follow COVID-19 best practices." They are responsible for 68 positive coronavirus cases among their employees. According to Ralph Clegg, executive director of the Utah County Health Department, the health department hasn't shut down either business, because freedom and tyranny or something we guess.

CLEGG: Both businesses are currently operating. One business, because of the nature of the business, needed to shut down and close (temporarily). But even the other business, I think, has done what we asked them to do as far as cleaning up and sanitizing.

https://www.wonkette.com/utah-county-businesses-forced-employees-sick-with-covid-19-to-work-but-lets-not-identify-them-or-anything

[uponit7771]

1. OSHA Violations ?! tia

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Should be sued for putting both the customers and the employees at risk to the CV...the feds...

won't do it under Barr/Trump, so the exposed public and employees must do it.