Update on Vaccine Mandates for Businesses, Health Workers and Federal Contractors December 6, 2021 By David A. Lieb and Geoff Mulvihill Millions of health care workers across the U.S. were supposed to have their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by...
Update on Court Challenges to Biden Covid Vaccine Rules December 2, 2021 By Tom Hals Courts have recently blocked some of the Biden administration’s rules and regulations aimed at increasing U.S. vaccination against COVID-19, which...
Biden Administration Extends Comment Period on OSHA Vaccine Rule to Jan 19 December 1, 2021 The Biden administration on Tuesday extended the comment period on its sweeping workplace COVID-19 vaccine rule by 45 days as...
Where Employers Stand on Vaccines, ‘New Normal’ Workplace, Remote Work, Travel November 30, 2021 Although more than half (57%) of U.S. employers say they require or plan to require COVID-19 vaccinations of employees, much...
U.S. Asks Appeals Court to Lift Stay on COVID Vaccine Mandate or Allow Mask Rule November 23, 2021 By Tom Hals The U.S. government asked a federal appeals court to immediately lift a court-ordered stay on a sweeping workplace COVID-19 vaccine...
6th Circuit to Hear Consolidated Lawsuits Challenging Biden Workplace Vaccine Rule November 17, 2021 By Tom Hals A judicial panel on Tuesday consolidated 34 lawsuits challenging the Biden administration’s workplace COVID-19 vaccine rule in the 6th U.S....
Federal Court Continues Stay on OSHA’s COVID Vaccine/Test Mandate on Businesses November 14, 2021 A federal court declined Friday to lift its stay on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or...
Biden COVID-19 Vaccine Rules for Businesses Prompt Republican Backlash November 5, 2021 By Tom Hals, Ahmed Aboulenein, David Shepardson and Nandita Bose President Joe Biden will enforce a mandate that workers at U.S. companies with at least 100 employees be vaccinated against...
States Sue to End Biden COVID Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors November 1, 2021 Eighteen states filed three separate lawsuits Friday to stop President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, arguing that...
Senate Confirms Parker as OSHA Chief October 28, 2021 The U.S. Senate has approved Douglas Parker, former California workplace safety chief, as assistant secretary of labor at the Labor...