Shifts coronavirus safety update

To keep workers, stores and customers safe, we are encouraging all of our Snagajob workers to follow CDC guidance to help prevent the spread of the virus. We are also communicating specific procedures to inform workers of the steps to take if they have been diagnosed with COVID-19, are awaiting test results or present specific symptoms. 

To encourage sick workers to stay home, we are temporarily not giving strikes to workers who meet certain health criteria. As a result, you may notice more worker cancellations than usual. For workers diagnosed with COVID-19, we are providing two weeks of paid sick leave. 

We are closely monitoring the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and are prepared to offer paid sick leave and paid family leave in accordance with the law.

Shifts by Snagajob Safe Work Practices

The Shifts by Snagajob team intends to ensure that each of our employees can work in a workplace free from recognized hazards, specifically from risk and exposure to coronavirus. We feel strongly that informed workers who feel safe at work are less likely to be unnecessarily absent or to drop a shift. Therefore, Shifts by Snagajob requires that all Shifts clients immediately implement the following safe work practices to reduce and minimize exposure to COVID-19. Changes in outbreak conditions may warrant additional precautions in some workplaces not currently highlighted in this guidance.

 Beginning March 16, 2020, the following safety protocols MUST be in place before a client will be allowed to post a shift:

• Client must encourage their own employees to stay home if they are sick or showing even the mildest symptoms of COVID-19. 

• Client must maintain regular housekeeping practices, including routine cleaning and disinfecting of surfaces, equipment, and other elements of the work environment. When choosing cleaning chemicals, employers should consult information on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-approved disinfectant labels with claims against emerging viral pathogens. Products with EPA-approved emerging viral pathogens claims are expected to be effective against COVID-19 based on data for harder to kill viruses. Follow the manufacturer’s instructions for use of all cleaning and disinfection products (e.g., concentration, application method and contact time, PPE). 

• Client provides resources and a work environment that promotes personal hygiene. For example, providing tissues, no-touch trash cans, hand soap, alcohol-based hand rubs or sanitizers with at least 60% alcohol, disinfectants, and disposable towels for workers to clean their work surfaces.

• Client requires regular hand-washing or use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers. 

• Client posts handwashing signs in restrooms (recommended use: CDC COVID-19 Communication Resources). 

• Client provides workers with PPE to prevent certain exposures. Examples of PPE include gloves, goggles, face masks, and respiratory protection when and if appropriate. 

• Where appropriate, Clients limit customers’ and the public’s access to the worksite, or restrict access to only certain workplace areas.

• Clients who need workers to conduct cleaning tasks at their worksite must ensure that workers are protected from exposure to blood, certain body fluids, and other potentially infectious materials covered by OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogens standard and from hazardous chemicals used in these tasks. 

• Clients can promptly identify and isolate potentially infectious individuals in order to protect workers, customers, visitors, and others at their worksite.

• Client establishes alternating days, staggered schedules or schedule extra shifts that reduce the total number of employees in a workplace at a given time allowing them to maintain distance from one another while maintaining as much on-site work as possible. 

Due to local restrictions and bans that have been implemented in various Shifts markets, Shifts by Snagajob will not post or fill shifts supporting large event gatherings of 10 or more people while said restrictions and bans are in effect.