Workers at the university said that they 'should not be required to be exposed to an increased risk of getting sick' due to students' return to campus, said the lawsuit filed Monday by several organizations.
At least 16 workers on campuses in the University of North Carolina school system are suing the schools for working conditions that put them"at an increased risk of exposure to COVID-19."
Bringing students back to campus places workers at higher risk of exposure to the virus, and despite masks, social distancing and hand-washing requirements implemented by the school, it is impossible to"control whether thousands of students located within their campus communities comply" with these requirements, said the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, filed at the Wake County Superior Court.
The UNC system shut down residence halls when there were less than 10 cases reported in North Carolina in the spring, but now is reopening with some in-person classes as daily case numbers rise into the thousands. And since March, hundereds of cases have also been reported among students, employees and outside workers in UNC System, the most recent being in the past three weeks, with UNC-Chapel Hill reporting more than 40 cases on campus.Ohio State shuts down college sports workouts after receiving results of COVID-19 testing
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