On January 13, 2022, a divided Supreme Court stayed OSHA’s vaccine-or-test emergency temporary standard (ETS). Nat’l Federation of Independent Business v. Dep’t of Labor, OSHA , 595 U.S. ___ (2022). The matter came before the...more
1/17/2022
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On December 7, 2021, Judge R. Stan Baker of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a nationwide injunction of the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors issued on September...more
12/13/2021
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On December 7, 2021, Judge R. Stan Baker of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a nationwide injunction of the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors issued on September...more
12/9/2021
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By: Sati Harutyunyan, Matthew L. Haws, Gabrielle Sigel, Emma J. Sullivan, and Joseph J. Torres The Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (Task Force) issued its much anticipated guidance to federal contractors pursuant to...more
9/27/2021
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