Updated employee health and safety guidelines regarding respiratory illnesses
Dear Staff and Faculty,
Last Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Updated Respiratory Virus Guidance regarding how individuals should protect themselves and others from respiratory illnesses, 包括COVID-19. As a result of this updated guidance, individuals who test positive for COVID-19 are no longer 要求 to isolate for five days.
What the new guidance states
The CDC’s new guidance for individuals with a respiratory illness, 包括COVID-19,
the flu, and RSV, recommends:
• Stay home when you are sick; and
• Return to normal activities when you have been fever-free for 24 hours (without
the use of fever-reducing medication) and your symptoms are getting better overall.
The CDC also recommends that when returning to work and other activities, individuals wear a mask around others for another five days, as well as take other precautions to protect others, including frequent hand washing, covering coughs and sneezes, and 物理距离.
What this means for employees
The College encourages faculty and staff to stay home when they are sick with a respiratory
illness and to follow the CDC’s recommendations regarding when to return to work and
the additional precautionary measures following your return.
请注意: 单独的消息 with updated guidance for students was shared with them earlier today.
Recording sick and absence time
Staff and faculty are no longer 要求 to notify 人力资源 when they test
positive for COVID-19, and the College’s Interim COVID-19 Emergency Leave Policy is
不再有效. Staff who are sick must still notify their supervisor of their
absence and record that time in Oracle as sick or absence time.
测试
COVID-19 tests will remain available through the rest of the semester for staff and
faculty concerned about workplace-related exposure. Employees remain encouraged to
test if they are experiencing symptoms or have been exposed to COVID-19, but staff
and faculty are no longer 要求 to report positive COVID-19 test results to Human
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面具
The College will continue to provide KN95 masks to staff, faculty, and students. 部门
may request masks by contacting 设施. Faculty may choose to require masking
in their classrooms, labs, or studios; staff and faculty may require masking within
their personal office space; and students may require masking of visitors in their
individual residence rooms. Everywhere else on campus, masking is optional and not
要求. Skidmore continues to be a mask-supportive and mask-friendly community.
Individuals should feel free to wear a mask whenever and wherever they wish.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Laura Goodwin, Assistant Director for Benefits, Compliance and Wellness.
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