COVID-19 Essential Workers
HEALTHCARE / PUBLIC HEALTH
- Health care providers and caregivers
- Hospital and laboratory personnel
- Workers in other medical facilities
- Manufacturers, technicians, logistics and warehouse operators, and distributors
- Public health / community health workers
- Behavioral health workers
- Workers that manage health plans, billing, and health information
- Workers who support food, shelter, and social services
- Pharmacy employees necessary for filling prescriptions
- Workers supporting veterinary hospitals and clinics
EMERGENCY SERVICES SECTOR
- Law enforcement, public safety and first responders
- Private security, private fire departments, and private emergency medical services personnel
- Animal control officers and humane officers
PUBLIC WORKS
- Workers who support the operation, inspection, and maintenance of essential public works facilities and operations
- Workers such as plumbers, electricians, exterminators, and other service providers
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
- Workers supporting groceries, pharmacies, and other retail that sells food and beverage products
- Restaurant carry-out and quick serve food operations
- Food manufacturer employees and their supplier employee
- Farm workers
- Employees and firms supporting food, feed, and beverage distribution
- Workers supporting the sanitation of all food manufacturing processes and operations from wholesale to retail.
- Workers essential for assistance programs and government payments.
- Workers supporting cannabis retail and dietary supplement retail.
ENERGY
- Workers who maintain, ensure, or restore the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power
- Mutual assistance personnel
- Crude oil and petroleum storage facilities
- Retail fuel centers
- Natural gas processing and storage plants
WATER AND WASTEWATER
- Operational staff at water authorities and all necessary facilities
TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS
- Employees supporting or enabling transportation functions
- Mass transit workers
- Taxis and transportation services
- Automotive repair and maintenance facilities
- Postal and shipping worker
- Air transportation employees
COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
- Maintenance of communications infrastructure
- Workers who support radio, television, and media service
- Installation, maintenance, and repair technicians
- Workers supporting communications systems and information technology
- Support required for continuity of services, including janitorial/cleaning personnel
OTHER COMMUNITY-BASED GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- The Courts, consistent with guidance released by the California Chief Justice
- Security staff to maintain building access control and physical security measures
- Elections personnel
- Weather forecasters
- Hotel workers where hotels are used for COVID-19 mitigation
- Construction workers
- Workers such as plumbers, electricians, exterminators, and other service providers
- Commercial retail stores that supply essential sectors
- Professional services, such as legal or accounting services
- Laundromats and laundry services
FINANCIAL SERVICES
- Workers who are needed to process and maintain systems for processing financial transactions and services
- Workers who are needed to provide consumer access to banking and lending services
DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE
- Workers who support the essential services required to meet national security commitments to the federal government and U.S. military
- Personnel working for companies, and their subcontractors, who perform under contract to the Department of Defense