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In plain English, here’s why the government can’t force healthcare workers to get COVID-19 shots
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Yesterday, I mentioned briefly that a Louisiana federal judge entered a nationwide injunction against the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services healthcare COVID-19 vaccine mandate (the “CMS Rule”). The CMS Rule requires the staff of twenty-one types of Medicare and Medicaid healthcare providers to receive one vaccine by December 6, 2021, and the second vaccine by January 4, 2022. Otherwise, the government can withhold Medicare and Medicare funding.
Surely, CMS has a strong interest in having safe healthcare facilities? So, why then did a federal judge forbid enforcement of the CMS Rule in all 50 states? Continue reading
A federal court has blocked the government’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for federal contractors
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So much for that glass being half-full. For the government’s vaccine mandates, things are going from bad to — ah, you can read this sign.
Yesterday, a Louisiana federal judge entered a nationwide injunction against the CMS healthcare COVID-19 vaccine mandate. I’ll detail that tomorrow.
Today, I’ve got news on the big hit that the Executive Order mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for employees of certain federal contractors (the “Contactor EO”) just took. Continue reading
Meanwhile, the CMS healthcare COVID-19 vaccine mandate isn’t faring much better
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What do we have here? Is that glass half-full or half-empty? Continue reading
When will the court decide whether OSHA’s vax-or-test mandate is legal?
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I know. You have a business to run, and all of this uncertainty about whether OSHA can force COVID-19 vaccinations or weekly testing at companies with 100 or more employees isn’t helping.
So, let’s see if we can at least clarify the timing. Continue reading
Eric, we’re just gonna wait and see what happens with the OSHA vax-or-test mandate
Survey by Adrien Coquet from the Noun Project
Thank you to those of you who participated in yesterday’s OSHA vax-or-test survey. Continue reading
Does your private business have more than 99 employees? Take this quick vax-or-test poll.
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Over the weekend, a colleague asked a few of us how (if?) most private employers with more than 99 employees are prepping their workplaces for the OSHA vaccine-or-test mandate in light of its uncertain fate at the Sixth Circuit — especially after the beatdown that OSHA took at the Fifth Circuit.
And I was like, ” I don’t know.”
So, perhaps the best blog readers in the world can help. Continue reading
The Sixth Circuit “won the lottery” and will decide the fate of the OSHA vax-or-test mandate
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Filed Under: Every Employment Law Blogger Will Be Blogging About This Today.
The Fifth Circuit just dunked hard on OSHA’s vax-or-test mandate
Image Credit: slam dunk by Andrew Doane from the Noun Project
On Friday afternoon, when four of my FisherBroyles employer law partners and I were dissecting the OSHA vax-or-test Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on Zoom — ICYMI, you can watch the replay here on The Employer Handbook YouTube Channel (https://bit.ly/TheEmployerHandbookYouTube) — I asked them to raise their hand if they thought that the ETS would ultimately survive judicial scrutiny.
No one did. Continue reading