“New Yorkers should be prepared right now for the possibility of a shelter-in-place order,” the mayor said at a City Hall press conference Tuesday afternoon.
“I believe this decision should be made in the next 48 hours,” the mayor said of a New York City order that would shut down all non-essential business....
https://nypost.com/2020/03/17/cuomo-de- ... m-for-nyc/
My spouse commutes into the Bronx, and as his company updates their cv policies, one of the memos said they had been designated an “essential business,” I assume because their customers service the air handling needs for many of the city’s hospitals, research facilities, medical offices, grocery store chains, etc.
In other words, commuting for “essential businesses” will be allowed, all other commuting won’t? Who knows. What a mess.
Meanwhile, on a far, far tinier scale, my municipal council won’t make a decision about whether pt employees will get paid if we close, and is defaulting the decision to me, the volunteer, UNPAID, non-elected, library board appointee.
Talk about grass-roots. I’m pretty miffed that our city attorney basically threatened my library director, saying if we had a policy that distinguished between FT and PT employees, we’d “ better have a really good reason”! How about helping out, paid and elected politicians? Do the work we elect and pay you for!