California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a new executive order aimed at providing further protections to food-sector workers laboring on the state's front lines of the coronavirus outbreak.
Newsom on Thursday announced during his daily, live-streamed press conference that he had signed an executive order providing a supplemental two weeks of sick leave for food-sector workers, from farmers to servers to delivery workers "that have contracted COVID-19, been exposed to it, or have been exposed in isolation by quarantine orders by federal and state health officials." The governor said he worked with the California Grocers Association and the United Food and Commerical Workers International Union (UFCW), among others, on the policy. "I hope this.