Image Credit: Pxfuel.com Possibly as early as next week, reports NBC News. Back in early September, President Biden instructed OSHA to prepare an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring private employers with 100+ employees to require workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or test them regularly. Late Tuesday evening, OSHA reportedly submitted…
AnonMoos based on image by Darwinek, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons First it was Montana. And now Texas has become the second state to prohibit vaccine mandates. Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order stating that no entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccination by any…
Image Credit: Piqsels.com Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that a Texas man received 15 months in prison for perpetrating a hoax related to COVID-19 after a federal jury found him guilty of two counts of 18 U.S.C. § 1038, which criminalizes false information and hoaxes related to…
Image Credit: Piqsels.com Yes, I think I did. So, I’ll let you in on it. In September, President Biden signed an Executive Order requiring federal employees to get vaccinated as a condition of employment. This week, the federal government updated its Frequently Asked Questions for Vaccinations for federal sector workers.…
Image by fernando zhiminaicela from Pixabay No, I’m not making this up. And, spoiler alert, 🥴 As I meant to tell you on Tuesday, another reason that courts don’t overturn an employer’s mandatory vaccination policy is that they’ll generally defer to lawmakers to decide whether employers should have that power.…
pregnant woman by Adrien Coquet from the Noun Project Days Since Last COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination Post: One Zero. A little over a month ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially recommended vaccinations for all women who are pregnant, breastfeeding, trying to get pregnant now, or might become…
SELF Magazine, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Yesterday, I read two more decisions (here and here) from federal judges evaluating mandatory vaccination policies. Both involved attempts by plaintiffs to obtain a preliminary injunction to avoid getting the jab. One involved a student at a public university; the other involved…
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay If your company (regardless of employee headcount) performs work on federal government contracts, then the government has some additional information for you on mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations and masking. And I’m here to fill you in on the three high points. Covered contractors must ensure…
Image by Wokandapix from Pixabay I’ll give you a few seconds to pick your jaws up off the floor before I continue. The Newberg Graphic (here) appears to be the first one to break the news: A staff member at [an] Elementary School in Newberg showed up to work in…
Image by Venita Oberholster from Pixabay Several states and cities require that individuals wear masks in indoor public places, regardless of vaccination status. Independent of any state or local law, many businesses require the same. In either case, you’d think that not only would those rules apply to everyone, but…