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All Non-Essential Construction Must STOP Per the newly posted guidelines on the Empire State Development website, the Governor has now shut down all non-essential construction across the state: "All non-essential construction must shut down except emergency construction, (e.g. a project necessary to protect health and safety of the occupants, or to continue a project if it would be unsafe to allow to remain undone until it is safe to shut the site). Essential construction may continue and includes roads, bridges, transit facilities, utilities, hospitals or health care facilities, affordable housing, and homeless shelters. At every site, if essential or emergency non-essential construction, this includes maintaining social distance, including for purposes of elevators/meals/entry and exit. Sites that cannot maintain distance and safety best practices must close and enforcement will be provided by the state in coordination with the city/local governments. This will include fines of up to $10,000 per violation. For purposes of this section construction work does not include a single worker, who is the sole employee/worker on a job site." We are aware of several calls taking place within the Executive Branch at this very moment and expect some clarifications regarding the definition of essential and when this goes into effect shortly. We will let our membership know as soon as this is made official. It is important that you notify the Union reps for the Trades you hire of any job shutdowns in order to keep everyone informed. In order to assist you, please refer to this document we shared just yesterday: Workplace Stalled Site Plan We have additional and resources about COVID-19 can be found here: www.ecainc.org/covid-19
"All non-essential construction must shut down except emergency construction, (e.g. a project necessary to protect health and safety of the occupants, or to continue a project if it would be unsafe to allow to remain undone until it is safe to shut the site).
Essential construction may continue and includes roads, bridges, transit facilities, utilities, hospitals or health care facilities, affordable housing, and homeless shelters. At every site, if essential or emergency non-essential construction, this includes maintaining social distance, including for purposes of elevators/meals/entry and exit. Sites that cannot maintain distance and safety best practices must close and enforcement will be provided by the state in coordination with the city/local governments. This will include fines of up to $10,000 per violation.
For purposes of this section construction work does not include a single worker, who is the sole employee/worker on a job site."
We are aware of several calls taking place within the Executive Branch at this very moment and expect some clarifications regarding the definition of essential and when this goes into effect shortly.
We will let our membership know as soon as this is made official.
It is important that you notify the Union reps for the Trades you hire of any job shutdowns in order to keep everyone informed.
In order to assist you, please refer to this document we shared just yesterday: Workplace Stalled Site Plan We have additional and resources about COVID-19 can be found here: www.ecainc.org/covid-19
We have additional and resources about COVID-19 can be found here: www.ecainc.org/covid-19