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BumRushDaShow

(128,527 posts)
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 11:33 AM Mar 2020

Cuomo mandates all non-essential New York workers to stay home

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)All workers in non-essential businesses across New York state are required to stay home in an effort to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced at a press conference Friday morning.

"We need everyone to be safe, otherwise no one can be safe," Cuomo said. "So we're going to put out an executive order today: New York state on pause: Policies that Assure Uniform Safety for Everyone." Civil fines and mandatory closures for businesses that don't comply with the new mandate will be enforced, Cuomo announced.

"These provisions will be enforced," he said. "These are not helpful hints. This is not if you really want to be a great citizen. These are legal provisions. They will be enforced. There will be a civil fine and mandatory closure for any business that is not in compliance. Again, your actions can affect my health. That's where we are."

This story is breaking and will be updated.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/politics/new-york-workforce-stay-home/index.html

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Cuomo mandates all non-essential New York workers to stay home (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Mar 2020 OP
No barber shops/hair salons Polybius Mar 2020 #1
They have been closed in WI for a few days now. riversedge Mar 2020 #5
Cuomo was great. Calm, informative, empathetic, smart, serious, articulate. The WH wiggs Mar 2020 #2
and Cuomo said he assumes RESPONSIBILTY and he said it likes he meant it. riversedge Mar 2020 #6
They need to define this better... EarthFirst Mar 2020 #3
The market will fall apart on that news UpInArms Mar 2020 #4
I do believe it did. riversedge Mar 2020 #7

wiggs

(7,810 posts)
2. Cuomo was great. Calm, informative, empathetic, smart, serious, articulate. The WH
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 12:21 PM
Mar 2020

task force presser is unwatchable, frightening, disgusting, self-serving.

EarthFirst

(2,899 posts)
3. They need to define this better...
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 01:43 PM
Mar 2020

Change the verbiage to all non “life-supporting” personnel.

I’m a mason for a landscaper; and my employer is attempting to keep us working under an obscure agriculture exemption...

If it’s as bad as they say it’s going to get; which I believe it will; there’s no way that me installing an outdoor kitchen & fireplace for a client is an essential service.

I feel a lot of employers are going to stretch the language in order to serve their bottom line first...

This needs a better definition in my opinion.

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