Getting the New Hampshire businesses and their employees safely back to work, while minimizing the impact of COVID-19 is the charge of the Governor’s Economic Reopening Task Force.
The task force, comprised of bipartisan legislators, private-sector leaders, and state officials, meets daily to develop recommendations for the thoughtful reopening of the state’s economy. In addition to the Universal Guidance for all essential and reopened business sectors, the task force focuses its work on sectors that have specific and unique circumstances. After hearing from industry leaders and experts, the task force develops recommendations and moves them to the state division of public health for its review, and ultimately be presented to Gov. Sununu for any action.
This process understandably creates questions. The Department of Business and Economic Affairs has developed a business help portal, staffed seven days a week, to help businesses get the answers they need.
“Ensuring consistent and timely answer to questions from the business community, municipalities, and all Granite Staters is very important,” said BEA Commissioner Taylor Caswell. “Our business help portal is a great tool to get clarity and further information on state-issued industry guidance. Gov. Sununu has made a strong commitment to work collaboratively with the business community and municipalities to ensure that industries are able to reopen in a safe manner, and this is a tool to give them confidence to do so.”