According to Article 3,
Section 113950 of the California Retail Food Code, health departments are required to exclude food
handlers from a food facility if he/she was diagnosed with a communicable disease transmissible
through food.27 Yet 78% of accommodation and food service workers in the state did not have paid
sick days.10 Case studies illustrated compelling examples of the involvement of restaurant workers in
high profile disease outbreaks. For example, in 2006, a restaurant-worker infected over 350
customers with norovirus at a restaurant in Michigan