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The enacted ordinance requires health care employers to compensate eligible health care and pool employees who contract a communicable disease at work during a pandemic or epidemic declared by a recognized public health organization. Employees must have worked for the employer at least 40 hours in the previous three months and may receive reimbursement for lost wages and related medical expenses or medical care at no cost.

Amending Chapter 9-4100 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Promoting Healthy Families and Workplaces," by adding new definitions and requirements to ensure that certain health care employees are compensated for lost wages and medical expenses in the event they contract a communicable disease at work during a pandemic or epidemic event, all under certain terms and conditions.