My oldest daughter lives in Hoboken and works in Manhattan. Hoboken has been on a 8PM -5AM curfew all week. However, her employer was still requiring employees to come to work on staggered hours. Last night she called me and let me know a co-worker tested positive for Covid-19. And her employer knew that they had an employee that was being tested due to being symptomatic. She works in the sales area of a custom garment producing company and the manufacturing is in a different location in Manhattan (where the positive employee works), although other employees go back and forth to her office location. And the real stupidity of her employer is that most seamstresses in NYC are older women. We need to be smarter as a nation. It is these lapses in judgment that will prolong this. I had a younger employee request a week's vacation beginning March 26th to Austin, TX last week due to the dramatically lowered airfares. Yesterday I told him if he goes, he can use his last 2 weeks of vacation in self-quarantine, or take 2 weeks unpaid to self-quarantine before returning to work. It's his choice. Today I'll find out what his decision is.
