Up to $2,500 Penalties for Businesses That Don’t Enforce Coronavirus Rules
Businesses could face fines of up to $2,500 if they fail to enforce rules requiring face coverings and limiting crowd sizes under new emergency rules announced Friday by Gov. JB Pritzker.
The new rules, which will face a bipartisan legislative panel next week, immediately came under fire from some Republican lawmakers and retailers for targeting businesses with penalties.
Those developments came on the same day that the Illinois Department of Public Health reported more than 2,000 additional cases of COVID-19. There are now 13 counties in the state that are exceeding two or more metrics used to determine if an area is keeping control of the spread of the coronavirus. Sangamon County, which was previously on the warning list, is now off of it. Winnebago County is on the list.
At a Chicago news conference, Pritzker said, “This is a make or break moment for the state of Illinois.” He said the new rules are significantly less harmful to businesses than laws currently on the books that provide for misdemeanor charges to be filed and for licenses or other business permits to be revoked.
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The new rules, which will face a bipartisan legislative panel next week, immediately came under fire from some Republican lawmakers and retailers for targeting businesses with penalties.
Those developments came on the same day that the Illinois Department of Public Health reported more than 2,000 additional cases of COVID-19. There are now 13 counties in the state that are exceeding two or more metrics used to determine if an area is keeping control of the spread of the coronavirus. Sangamon County, which was previously on the warning list, is now off of it. Winnebago County is on the list.
At a Chicago news conference, Pritzker said, “This is a make or break moment for the state of Illinois.” He said the new rules are significantly less harmful to businesses than laws currently on the books that provide for misdemeanor charges to be filed and for licenses or other business permits to be revoked.
Click Here to read more.