Jennifer Shutt, Missouri Independent Members of the U.S. military would no longer be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine under a proposal Congress could pass as soon as this week. The provision eliminating the vaccine mandate is tucked into the massive National Defense Authorization Act, the annual defense policy bill that Congress …
Read More »OSHA Withdraws Vaccine-Or-Test Requirement For Large Employers
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 – …
Read More »Court Blocks Vaccine Mandate For Federal Employees
A federal judge in Texas ruled Friday that the Biden Administration cannot enforce its vaccine mandate for federal employees, issuing an injunction that halts the requirement nationwide. Judge Jeffrey Brown found the president had no legal authority to require feds to get vaccinated, saying that while he has broad power over federal …
Read More »Supreme Court Blocks Biden’s Vaccine Mandate For Large Employers; Upholds Mandate For Healthcare Workers
The US Supreme Court overturned a vaccine mandate imposed by the Biden administration on employees of large companies, while upholding a narrow vaccine mandate on health workers. In a pair of rulings handed down Thursday, the court struck down the federal requirement imposed by President Biden, via the Occupational Safety …
Read More »Federal Appeals Court Reinstates Biden’s Vaccine Mandate For Large Businesses
A US federal appeals court on Friday reinstated President Joe Biden‘s COVID-19 vaccine or testing mandate for businesses. The Biden administration’s rule of having workers at private companies either get vaccinated or get tested weekly for the coronavirus from January 4 has sparked deep controversy in the county. The ruling by the 6th US Court …
Read More »New York Mayor Announces Vaccine Mandate for Private Sector Workers
On Monday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced major expansions to the “Key to NYC” program, the first-in-nation vaccination mandate for workers and customers at indoor dining, fitness, entertainment and performance venues. New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio announces all private-sector workers in New York City will be …
Read More »Federal Judge Blocks Biden’s Health Care Workers Vaccine Mandate
A federal judge in Louisiana on Tuesday issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, The New York Times reports. Judge Terry A. Doughty in the US District Court Western District of Louisiana ruled in favor of a request from Republican Louisiana …
Read More »Biden Files Emergency Lawsuit To Reinstate Vaccine Mandate For Large Employers
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 …
Read More »Florida Governor DeSantis Signs Laws Banning Vaccine, Mask Mandates
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed four bills into law on Thursday restricting mask and Covid-19 vaccine mandates in an effort to combat federal rules handed down by President Joe Biden. Flanked by his newly appointed surgeon general and Republican legislators, DeSantis described the bills as a win for personal freedoms …
Read More »Federal Appeals Court Continues Hold On Biden Vaccine Mandate
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 …
Read More »Federal Appeals Court Temporarily Blocks Biden’s Vaccine Requirement
On Saturday, a federal appeals court temporarily halted the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers. The Republican attorneys general of Texas, South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi and Utah, as well as several private companies, filed petitions on Friday challenging the mandate in the U.S. 5th Circuit …
Read More »COVID vaccine mandate for large employers set for January 4
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 …
Read More »Florida Gov. DeSantis Suing Biden Administration Over Vaccine Mandate
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has announced that he is suing the Biden Administration over its order requiring vaccinations against COVID-19 for federal employees and contractors by December 8. The lawsuit alleges that the president doesn’t have the authority to issue the rule and that it violates procurement law. DeSantis has …
Read More »Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Bans COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
On Monday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order banning COVID-19 vaccine mandates from being implemented by any “entity in Texas.” “No entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine by any individual, including an employee or a consumer, who objects to such vaccination for any reason of personal conscience, …
Read More »California To Become First State With COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate For Students
After implementing first-in-the-nation school masking and staff vaccination measures, California becomes the first state to announce plans to require student vaccinations – adding the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of vaccinations required for schools, such as the vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella. Students will be required to be vaccinated …
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