Vaccine Mandates Loom Large
October 12, 2021
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“Vaccinating the Unvaccinated” is central to the Biden Administration’s “Path Out of the Pandemic.” Federal agency workers and military personnel are required to be vaccinated; health care facilities that participate in Medicare or Medicaid must require vaccination for health care workers; certain federal government contractors must ensure that covered employees are vaccinated (see our prior blog post on the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force Guidance under EO 14042); and OSHA has been directed to issue an Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) that will require all employers with more than 100 employees to require vaccination or weekly COVID-19 testing for all employees. The ETS is expected to be issued soon without formal notice and comment rulemaking and will be effective for only six months.
