Work at home executive order takes effect in Jax this morning

Jacksonville, FL — New restrictions to limit physical contact across Jacksonville take effect today. Mayor Lenny Curry says effective at 8 am today all businesses within the Consolidated City, including the Beaches and Baldwin, whose work is able to be performed by employees remotely, shall allow employees to do so.

“If you don’t do this and we don’t flatten the curve, you could see a federal or a state curfew and they will enforce it”, Curry said during a Monday briefing. “To be clear, if an employee can perform a job function from home, the executive order will require that that happens”.

Companies that don't follow the order could be fined or cited by the fire marshal.

The executive order states: “Effective at 8 am on Tuesday, March 24, 2020, all businesses withing the Consolidated City (including the Beaches and Baldwin) whose work is able to be performed by employees remotely from their homes shall allow such employees to do so, and to the best of their ability facilitate the means necessary to accomplish this mandate. Such businesses shall be prohibited from allowing employees at the office or other work place, unless working at the office or other work place or outside the home is essential or working from home is not possible by a particular employee. At all times each employee shall be no less than 6 feet from another employee, for any purpose, unless and only to the extent necessary by virtue of their job. Employers shall continue to pay employees during this time”.