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The Department of Labor announced Tuesday that it would withdraw its vaccine-or-test requirement for large private employers after the United States Supreme Court dealt the Biden administration’s coronavirus strategy and the rule itself a decisive blow when it blocked its enforcement earlier this month. Effective Wednesday, the temporary standard – …

The Biden administration filed an emergency lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to immediately reinstate its vaccine mandate for private employers with 100 or more workers after it faced a series of legal challenges. Earlier this month, the Fifth Circuit Court in New Orleans issued a preliminary pause on the order, which …

A U.S. appeals court has upheld its ruling to place a hold on President Joe Biden‘s vaccine-or-test mandate for large U.S. employers. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals called it “staggeringly overbroad.” The court, based in New Orleans, issued a stay last weekend of the mandate that will require companies …

The Biden administration set a January 4 deadline on Thursday for employees at large companies to get fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or face weekly tests and mandatory mask-wearing on the job, a move that impacts 84 million private-sector workers. Seventeen million employees at health care facilities that receive federal funding …

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week called for a special legislative session next month to pass legislation to ban the COVID-19 vaccine mandates announced by the White House last month. Legislative leaders said they might use the session to pull away from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration(OSHA), which …