Safe Essential Workplace Act (Ashcroft/Richey, 2020)
Safe Essential Workplace Act (Ashcroft/Richey, 2020)
a) Every worker shall be entitled to up to 28 days of paid recovery leave from their position, which will be held for them to return to once sufficiently recovered, at a time, regardless of earlier paid recovery leave taken, covered by the government, for recovering from illness, recovering from catastrophic injury, caring for someone who is recovering from illness or a catastrophic injury, receiving medical treatment including vaccination, and/or recovering from medical treatment including vaccination. If more than 28 days of paid recovery leave is requested for a single stretch, then the county will promptly facilitate a meeting between the county, the employer, and the worker concerning reasonable accommodations and other disability supports around their work.
b) Every vaccine shall be free-at-access to every member of the public to the fullest extent currently possible.
c) Every worker who reports to a physical workplace shall be entitled to as much medical-grade PPE, cleaning agents, and sanitizing agents as they need to stay safe on the job and beyond.
d) In every single physical workplace, there shall be unlimited skin sanitizers available for use by customers and workers.
e) In every single physical workplace, there shall be wide, tall plexiglass shields not only between the customers and workers posted in stations, cashiers, desks, and booths, but also available to be placed between customers sitting at tables or booths upon request.
f) There shall be an office of the county’s Health department that functions as a strengthened worker resource and enforcer regarding health code rule breaks by employers.
g) It shall remain legally required for everyone to properly wear a mask to the fullest extent possible when inside the most essential locations of public transit vehicles and stops, medical centers of all sizes and kinds, grocery/general stores, pharmacies, banks, legal courts, and government offices.
h) It shall be entirely legal for everyone, and for every entity, to use force, either on their own or through a paid security guard, in order to protect their ability to properly use PPE, plexiglass, and other health measures when required by the law and/or preferred by the person or entity.
i) There shall be a county fund established, where all fines related to improper mask-wearing in the most essential places listed in Section (g) as well as all fines collected from places breaking the other safe-workplace rules, from which the county will pay out to workers and workplaces in order to cover paid recovery leave.
j) It shall be entirely against the law and punishable with closures and heavy fines to require in any place that workers and/or customers not properly use PPE in order to enter or receive services.
k) All students, faculty, and staff in schools, colleges, and universities have the full right to properly wear PPE at school.
l) All students in schools, colleges, and universities shall, in classes of all kinds to the fullest physically safe extent possible, shall either wear modest non-gendered uniforms completely covered by the school, or they shall wear outfits entirely of their own choosing that fully cover the genital region and buttocks, along with the hair, makeup, shoes, outerwear, and accessories entirely of their own choosing.
m) Schools, colleges, and universities are no longer permitted to discipline any student or leave them to get bullied by anyone due to how said student is dressed or styled.
o) Attire, hair, makeup, and accessories currently exempted from having sublaws (l) or (m) apply to them are obvious pro-Nazi/Third Reich attire/styling, obvious pro-white supremacy attire/styling, obvious pro-Ku Klux Klan attire/styling, and obvious pro-Confederacy attire/styling.
