Businesses Are Stretching the Definition of "Essential Worker"

With social distancing orders due to the Coronavirus mandating that everyone except “essential workers” stay home, we want to know: what makes an essential worker, essential? For today’s show, we have retired Circuit Court Judge the Honorable Wade McCree back again to discuss the legal definition of “essential worker.”

Are employers taking advantage of vague definitions in statutory language to stay open during government-mandated shutdowns, thus putting countless workers at risk? Or are the businesses that remain open actually providing "life-sustaining, essential services"? That depends, of course, on how you define essential, a word some businesses are trying to stretch as far as they can.