Update (Jan. 15, 2022): After the Jan. 14, 2022, publication of this alert, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued updated guidance to State Survey Agency directors providing 30 days (by Feb. 13) for facilities...more
1/17/2022
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On Jan. 13, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court granted an emergency request for relief regarding one of the two Biden administration COVID-19 employee vaccine mandates on appeal before the Court...more
1/14/2022
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On late Friday Dec. 17, 2021 a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reinstated the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers, lifting the Fifth Circuit’s earlier stay...more
On Nov. 30, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky granted a motion for preliminary injunction in Commonwealth of Kentucky, et al. v. Biden, et al., finding that President Biden’s broad authority...more
On Nov. 4, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring employees of large employers either to get vaccinated or to test negative on a weekly basis....more
As McGuireWoods noted in a Sept. 10, 2021 alert, in Sept. 20 and Sept. 23 FAQs, and in Sept. 27 and Oct. 18 alerts, President Biden’s “Path Out of the Pandemic” employee COVID-19 vaccination mandates have three main...more
As McGuireWoods noted in a Sept. 10, 2021 alert and Sept. 20, 2021 FAQs, President Biden’s “Path Out of the Pandemic” COVID-19 action plan is big on concept but thin on details pending yet-to-be-issued regulations. There is,...more
9/24/2021
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On August 24, 2016, the Obama administration published the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council’s final rule and the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) guidance implementing the July 31, 2014 “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces”...more