Updated December 17, 2020. On December 14, 2020, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order No. N-84-20 (the “Executive Order”), which suspended the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s (“Cal/OSHA”) temporary, emergency COVID-19 regulations (the “Regulations”) regarding the exclusion of COVID-19 cases from the workplace to the extent the exclusion periods set forth in the Regulations exceed: (i) applicable quarantine or isolation periods recommended by the California Department of Public Health (“CDPH”), or (ii) applicable quarantine or isolation periods recommended or ordered by a local health officer who has jurisdiction over the workplace. The Executive Order specifically references the CDPH’s December 14, 2020 Updated COVID-19 Quarantine Guidelines, which allow all asymptomatic close contacts (within 6 feet of an infected person for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period) to discontinue quarantine after day 10 from the date of last exposure with or without testing. However, if an employer prevents a worker who returns to work before the 14-day period specified in the Regulations from meeting all of the conditions for the applicable quarantine or isolation period specified by the CDPH or a local health officer, then the employer must continue to provide the worker their benefits, including pay, for the remainder of the 14-day period.