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QUESTION: What is your organization’s policy regarding employee travel during the COVID-19 pandemic? Specifically, does your policy address requiring employees to self-quarantine upon return from travel, especially if they travel to what the CDC considers COVID-19 hotspots? If your policy requires self-quarantine, how is the employee being compensated (requiring the use of PTO or Employer covers the expense, etc.)? Anyone who travels to any known COVID-19 hotspots or areas of broader community spread should not enter the building for at least 14 days. This pertains to personal travel outside of to/from home and office and essential business (e.g. out of state vacations…). See the CDC’s Coronavirus and Travel in the United States for more information. We are not requiring anyone to quarantine after travel, even to a hotspot. We perform a basic assessment before the start of each shift and a mask is required. Our organization has nothing in place concerning this topic in our Covid Emergency plan. However in the past, employees have vacationed at hot spots, and if they came back experiencing symptoms they were asked to quarantine for 14 day, but now that testing is readily available employees who have been exposed have been advised to get tested. As far as AL goes, if they have it available they can use it, otherwise they would need to take off without pay. Effective 7/1/2020 our organization requires all employees who travel outside of Indiana to have a negative COVID test before returning to work, during this time they use PTO if available if not time off without pay. This information is a compilation of suggestions, ideas, and opinions shared by INARF Members in response to the featured question. This information should not be considered official interpretation or guidance of State or Federal Policy. Additionally, statements within this document do not necessarily reflect an official position or opinion of INARF.
QUESTION: What is your organization’s policy regarding employee travel during the COVID-19 pandemic? Specifically, does your policy address requiring employees to self-quarantine upon return from travel, especially if they travel to what the CDC considers COVID-19 hotspots? If your policy requires self-quarantine, how is the employee being compensated (requiring the use of PTO or Employer covers the expense, etc.)?
Anyone who travels to any known COVID-19 hotspots or areas of broader community spread should not enter the building for at least 14 days. This pertains to personal travel outside of to/from home and office and essential business (e.g. out of state vacations…). See the CDC’s Coronavirus and Travel in the United States for more information.
We are not requiring anyone to quarantine after travel, even to a hotspot. We perform a basic assessment before the start of each shift and a mask is required.
Our organization has nothing in place concerning this topic in our Covid Emergency plan. However in the past, employees have vacationed at hot spots, and if they came back experiencing symptoms they were asked to quarantine for 14 day, but now that testing is readily available employees who have been exposed have been advised to get tested. As far as AL goes, if they have it available they can use it, otherwise they would need to take off without pay.
Effective 7/1/2020 our organization requires all employees who travel outside of Indiana to have a negative COVID test before returning to work, during this time they use PTO if available if not time off without pay.