So you have a company.
You start back up, and then one of your employees get’s COVID from a swinging waffle house. He comes in and gets other people sick, or claims he got sick from someone at your business that did not have symptoms.
Now you have to go to court in order to keep your company.
Now, we don’t do that with the flu or anything else, but since we went nuts I have no idea the liability here. neither does anyone else
In most states I think this is more about the employee-customer and business-customer legal exposure than the employer-employee exposure. If an employee gets sick and wants to claim that it was workplace-related, I’m almost certain this would be a worker’s compensation insurance claim — which precludes a lawsuit against the employer in most cases.