A week before Christmas, a busboy at a restaurant received a text message from his manager that his co-worker had tested positive for the coronaviruses.
It took Mr. Peak five days to get a negative report after he took time off. Several employees at the company tested positive. The restaurant was closed for a week because there weren't enough people to run it.
Many New York City restaurants were temporarily closed in December due to the sudden onslaught of the Omicron variant. The decisions businesses made last month and earlier in the Pandemic have given way to a time in which both employees and owners are unsure what to do when they test positive. Do you keep working and risk infecting others? Did you call in sick and miss out on income? Should the restaurant be closed to protect staff and customers or should it stay open?
Mr. Peak was happy with the decision to close, but the uncertainties have left him confused and frustrated. Mr. Hoota said they received differing advice on how to handle a worker who tested positive for Covid.
Mr. Hoota said that it was clear what to do in the beginning. It is changing a lot.
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Mr. Hoota has been handling Covid safety in the restaurant according to the busboy.
New York City has been the hardest hit by the Omicron variant, requiring proof of vaccination for all workers and anyone dining indoors. Many restaurants require staff and customers to wear masks.
Many New Yorkers in the business of hotels say that the absence of other mandates or even consistent recommendations has left them to figure out how to react when workers become infectious.
Seven of the restaurant's employees tested positive for Covid, so Geyer closed the restaurant. He said that they threw up their hands because no one was telling them what to do. We don't want to make the wrong decision.
New York City and the state do not require restaurants to close if workers test positive for Covid. The city's health department updated its guidance for employers in response to the winter surge in cases. Encouraging testing and ensuring that employees stay home if they test positive are some of the advice. On December 27th, the department ordered all employees to bevaccinated.
President Biden emphasizes the need to keep businesses and schools running while also emphasizing health and safety. In December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shortened the isolation period for people with Covid from 10 days to five, and did not require them to get a negative test result before they were released from isolation.
Many New York restaurants have stayed open despite the fact that an employee has been exposed to a disease. Since the beginning of the Pandemic, Breads Bakery has not closed any of its locations.
If an employee tests positive, they must stay home for five days, then return to work if they are symptom-free for at least three days. If other employees don't have symptoms, they can continue working.
It has been a challenge even with all the safety measures. The last month has been disappointing. The bakeries have had more workers out sick than any other time. It seems like we didn't get the bang from the vaccine.
The bakery in Union Square is short-staffed and some employees have been hesitant to take a Covid test. She said that if someone has to call out to get tested, who is going to work and cover that? There is a lot of stress about that.
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The New York Times reported that the restaurant's leadership wasn't taking Covid seriously, and that one employee left her job just before Christmas.
In late December, she quit her job as service director at Gabriel Kreuther because she felt it wasn't doing enough to protect staff and customers from Covid.
She said that members of management discouraged employees from getting tested even if they had been exposed to the virus. The person in charge of the Covid protocols at the restaurant told her that he didn't think the virus was real. She said that one chef led mandatory breathing exercises on Saturdays before the service. Other employees corroborate the allegations.
The day after she quit, she tested positive. She said that they wouldn't take things seriously and that she is now recovering from Covid.
A spokeswoman for the restaurant wrote in an email that the allegations were false.
A co-worker called in sick on a recent Wednesday, telling her manager that she had just tested positive for HIV. He said that the manager asked her to come back to work that Sunday. She returned the next day.
He said that she was talking to him and said that she might still be positive. The co-worker who asked not to be identified confirmed the details of his account.
The world has been dealing with the Pandemic for two years. Managers feel they can overlook a certain safety measure if it's not recommended by the government.
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A co-worker was asked to return to work after she was isolated for four days because she had been exposed to the coronaviruses.
A spokesman for Eataly wouldn't answer Mr. Burros's questions. He said in a statement that the company requires employees who test positive to be isolated for five days after their first noticeable symptoms, and that they no longer take medication for the symptoms. Anyone who returns to work must wear a mask.
We continue to take careful consideration to best protect our staff and adhere to city, state and federal public health best practices, given New York City's surge of the Omicron variant.
The president of One Fair Wage, an advocacy group for restaurant workers, said that the Omicron surge and a shortage of restaurant workers in New York will prompt more people to leave the business.
She said that the restaurant should close if there are many people who are sick. She said that workers are often forced to choose between their safety and their pay.
Employers with five or more employees and a net annual income of $1 million or more must give at least five days of paid sick leave to employees if they are ordered to isolation because of Covid-19.
Ms. Jayaraman said that city and state officials have not done enough to communicate with employers about paid sick leave, and that employers have not done enough to let restaurant workers know that they qualify.
After a bartender at Apotheke in Chinatown and Bar Meridian in Brooklyn tested positive for the virus in December, he tried to apply for unemployment benefits over the phone and online. He said the website was complicated. I waited on the phone and they said I didn't qualify.
A spokesman for New York State said that restaurant workers are eligible for unemployment if they test positive for the virus, but that it is a case by case decision.
According to the New York labor department website, if you work more than 30 hours a week, you may not be eligible for unemployment. It would be difficult for anyone in isolation to qualify as able to work or even apply if this were the case.
It can be difficult to get information about unemployment benefits. A New York Times reporter who reached out to both city and state officials to clarify their health guidance was directed back and forth among multiple departments over two days.
The server at Le Crocodile tested positive before Christmas and was given two weeks of paid sick leave. She said that managers and owners checked in on her to see how she was doing.
She felt taken care of by her employer, but she still has concerns, like will customers want to dine indoors in the dead of winter? How will guests react if vaccination requirements change?
She said, "Here we go again."
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