Stay-at-home orders and Essential Industry employers
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued a memo identifying 16 industries as “essential critical infrasture.”
- Chemical
- Communications
- Commercial facilities
- Critical manufacturing
- Dams
- Defense industrial base
- Emergency services
- Energy
- Financial
- Food & agriculture
- Government facilities
- Healthcare & public health
- Information technology
- Nuclear reactors, materials & waste
- Water
- Transportations systems
CISA’s memo details and explains each such industry for the purpose of suggesting a list of employers that should be exempted from state and local stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus.
Please note that the memo states its list is advisory in nature and not controlling.
Therefore, any actual stay-at-home orders will need to be analyzed carefully by an employer within one of the 16 essential industries, but the memo will hopefully provide a helpful document to assist state and local governments in clarifying any such orders.
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