(A) When the Regulatory Authority has reasonable cause to suspect the possibility of disease transmission from any food establishment employee, the Regulatory Authority shall secure a morbidity history of the suspected employee, or make other investigation as may be indicated and take appropriate action.
(B) The license holder shall require employees and conditional employees to report to the person in charge information about their health and activities as they relate to diseases that are transmissible through food. An employee or conditional employee shall report the information within twenty-four (24) hours and in a manner that allows the person in charge to reduce the risk of foodborne disease transmission, including providing necessary additional information such as the date of onset of symptoms and an illness, or onset of a diagnosis without symptoms, if the employee or conditional employee meets one (1) of the conditions set forth in Section 750.500(a) of the Illinois Food Service Sanitation Code.
(C) The person in charge shall notify the Regulatory Authority within twenty-four (24) hours (i.e., within eight (8) regularly scheduled business hours after receiving the report) when an employee is:
(1) Jaundiced; or
(2) Diagnosed with an illness due to a pathogen specified in subsections (a)(2)(A) through (F) of Section 750.500 of the Illinois Food Service Sanitation Code.
(D) The person in charge shall ensure that a conditional employee:
(1) Who exhibits or reports a symptom, or who reports a diagnosed illness as specified under subsections (a)(1) through (3) of Section 750.500 of the Illinois Food Service Sanitation Code, is prohibited from becoming an employee until the conditional employee meets the criteria for the specific symptoms or diagnosed illness as specified under subsection (G); and
(2) Who will work as an employee in a food establishment that serves a highly susceptible population reports a history of exposure as specified in subsections (a)(4) and (5) of Section 750.500 of the Illinois Food Service Sanitation Code, is prohibited from becoming an employee until the conditional employee meets the criteria specified in subsection (G).
(E) The person in charge shall ensure that an employee who exhibits or reports a symptom, or who reports a diagnosed illness, is excluded or restricted as required by the Control of Communicable Diseases Code, Part 690 of Title 77 of the Illinois Administrative Code.
(F) An employee or conditional employee shall report to the person in charge the information required by Section 750.500(a) of the Illinois Food Service Sanitation Code.
(G) An employee shall:
(1) Comply with an exclusion issued under the Control of Communicable Diseases Code and not work in any food establishment while complying.
(2) Comply with a restriction issued under the Control of Communicable Diseases Code.
(3) Comply with specimen collection for contact with a case as required by the Control of Communicable Diseases Code.
(H) The Regulatory Authority may also require any or all of the following measures:
(1) The immediate exclusion of the employee from all food establishments.
(2) The immediate closure of the food establishment concerned until, in the opinion of the Regulatory Authority, no further danger of disease outbreak exists.
(3) Restriction of the employee's services to some area of the food establishment where there would be no danger of transmitting disease.
(4) Adequate medical and laboratory examinations of the employee, of other employees and of his, her, or their body discharges.
('73 Code, § 14-21) (Ord. 87-1647, passed 4-2- 87; Am. Ord. 11-2849, passed 11-22-11; Am. Ord. 18-4076, passed 7-19-18)