Supplying our Nation with food is an essential task during this pandemic. It is also essential that corporations engaged in the production and sale of food take basic steps to protect their workers from the spread of COVID-19. Some employers are doing things right. Unfortunately, many essential workers in the food supply—farmworkers, slaughterhouse workers, warehouse workers, grocery workers, delivery drivers, restaurant workers, and many others—continue to be required to report to work under conditions that directly conflict with CDC guidance and state and local public health orders. These conditions include failing to restructure the workplace to allow for social distancing at work, failing to encourage sick leave for workers who fall ill, and failing to provide protective equipment or sufficient hand-washing opportunities. (more…)