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Blog Labor and Employment Law Shields Law PartnersJob or Jab? The Federal Court’s Vacillating Opinion on OSHA’s Proposed Vaccine Mandate

March 8, 2022by Shields Law Partners

The Mandate On November 5, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) released its Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”)[1] mandating employers with 100+ employees require their employees to undergo a COVID-19 vaccination or take weekly COVID-19 tests and wear a mask at work. Employee vaccination requirements were set to begin on January 4, 2022. Failure...

Blog Contractors Labor and Employment Law Shields Law PartnersWill You Be Required to Get a Vaccine? What You Need to Know About the Mandated Vaccines for Federal Contractors.

September 28, 2021by Shields Law Partners

On September 9, 2021, President Joe Biden issued two Executive Orders that will require Federal employees and contractors to be vaccinated.[1] The first is the Executive Order on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees (“Federal Employee Order”), and it requires all Federal employees to be vaccinated with no alternative option for regular testing. President Biden asked the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (“Task Force”) to produce an “issued guidance” for agency implementation of the Executive Order. The Task Force produced the COVID-19 Workplace Safety: Agency Model Safety Principles (“Task Force Model Principles”), which stipulates that all Federal employees, except in “limited circumstances,” must be vaccinated no later than November 22, 2021.

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Blog Labor and Employment Law Shields Law PartnersJob or Jab? The Federal Court’s Vacillating Opinion on OSHA’s Proposed Vaccine Mandate

Blog Contractors Labor and Employment Law Shields Law PartnersWill You Be Required to Get a Vaccine? What You Need to Know About the Mandated Vaccines for Federal Contractors.

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