{"id":31743,"date":"2022-02-07T11:16:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T16:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=31743"},"modified":"2022-02-07T11:16:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T16:16:06","slug":"usps-employees-must-adhere-to-current-face-coverings-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2022\/02\/07\/usps-employees-must-adhere-to-current-face-coverings-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS: Employees must adhere to current face coverings policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

USPS News Link<\/a> – 2\/7\/22 – The Postal Service is reminding employees and contractors to adhere to the organization\u2019s current face covering policy during the coronavirus pandemic<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Under the policy, all employees and contractors who interact with the public \u2014 regardless of vaccination status \u2014 must wear face coverings when there is a state, local or tribal directive in place that requires face coverings.<\/p>\n

Employees and contractors who don\u2019t deal directly with the public are also required to wear face coverings if they cannot achieve or maintain social distancing in the workplace, regardless of their vaccination status.<\/p>\n

The requirement to wear face coverings likewise applies to employees and contractors in administrative office buildings who cannot maintain social distancing in the workplace, regardless of their vaccination status.<\/p>\n

Employees and contractors can\u00a0request face coverings<\/em><\/a>\u00a0from their supervisors, or they can bring their own face coverings to wear while on duty.<\/p>\n

The Postal Service encourages all employees who wish to get vaccinated to do so.<\/p>\n

Vaccinations are\u00a0a critical tool<\/em><\/a>\u00a0to help stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus and its\u00a0variants<\/em><\/a>, according to the\u00a0Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

A stand-up talk was recently distributed to managers and supervisors on the current face covering policy.<\/p>\n

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USPS News Link – 2\/7\/22 – The Postal Service is reminding employees and contractors to adhere to the organization\u2019s current face covering policy during the coronavirus pandemic. Under the policy, all employees and contractors who interact with the public \u2014 regardless of vaccination status \u2014 must wear face coverings when there is a state, local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31745,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31743\/revisions\/31745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}