Essential Businesses Exempt from Connecticut’s One-Month Shutdown.
Essential businesses not subject to Connecticut’s one-month business shutdown include multiple industries beyond hospitals, grocers, and gas stations:
- Legal and accounting service providers
- Insurance companies
- Construction companies
- Maintenance companies for residential and commercial properties including sanitation, landscaping, and pest control services
- Child care providers
- Vendors of goods and services that are essential to the continued operations of essential businesses
- Banks and financial institutions
- Food and beverage-related businesses including grocers, distributors, warehouses, liquor stores, restaurants in compliance with other COVID-related restrictions
- Health and medical services including suppliers and manufacturers of health products
- Banks and check cashing companies
- Shipping and delivery services
- Businesses impacting national security
- Final guidance to be issued by the state by 8 pm on March 22nd
If your business is not on the list of essential services, then the ban on on-site staffing is expected to go into effect by 8:00 p.m. on March 23rd and will last for one month until April 22nd.
