Changing Mask Guidance Confuses Employers and Workers on Safety

Liisa Luick worked through the height of the Covid-19 pandemic lock down as a sales associate in the men’s department at the Macy’s department store in Lynnwood, Wash. Throughout that time she’s routinely masked-up even after face coverings became optional there.

Recalled to work in June 2020, Luick said in a phone interview that she and her colleagues “came back to a mask requirement that was never really enforced.” “We kept good practices and we tried to keep distance between us and the customers, there were certainly a segment of customers who were not going to mask.”

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