RI Business Group on Health Urges Employers to Join Crush COVID Challenge - LIVE

RI Business Group on Health Urges Employers to Join Crush COVID Challenge - LIVE

Joanne Bilotta with the Rhode Island Business Group on Health appeared on GoLocal LIVE to urge employers to join the Crush COVID challenge — and explain why they should do so. 

“The importance right now as you know is the impact that the pandemic is having on our economy — and many of our businesses, large and small, especially small are being significantly impacted by this pandemic, many of the are struggling to stay open and survive, others have closed,” said Bilotta. 

The Crush COVID Employer Challenge is open to companies with locations in Rhode Island with two or more employees, including non-profit organizations, municipalities, and the State.  A Crush COVID Champion Award will be given out to one large employer (250 or more employees), one mid-size employer (100-249 employees), and one small employer (2-99 employees).  

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Employers will be given access to an online toolkit containing links to information and materials that will help facilitate participation in the challenge.  The RIBGH Crush COVID Employer Challenge Committee will review the applications and select the winners based on a combination of the greatest number of compulsory points earned, most creative employee engagement strategies, and creative safe workplace executions.

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“So we feel that now is the time for businesses to bond together, whether you’re a two-person office, or whether you have thousands of employees,” said Bilotta. “We all have to step back from being COVID-weary and join this challenge — to reinforce the need to keep pushing on to crush COVID and protect our employees and protect our customers.”