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Overcoming the Sovereign Acts Doctrine: Contractor Recovers Costs Related to COVID-19 Quarantine

PilieroMazza PLLC on 10/30/2024

As we know, in the almost five years since the COVID-19 pandemic began, courts have been reluctant to award costs to contractors affected by COVID-19, government-imposed safety regulations. However, in Chugach Federal...more

New Executive Order Relieves Federal Contractors From Safer Federal Workforce Requirements

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 5/17/2023

As anticipated, President Joe Biden has rescinded the COVID-19 safety requirements for federal contractors in connection with the declared end of the COVID-19 public health emergency and the World Health Organization...more

OFCCP Week In Review: May 2023 #3

DirectEmployers Association on 5/16/2023

Wednesday, May 10, 2023: U.S. Office of Personnel Management Announced Proposed Rule on Pay Equity for Federal Workers - Proposal Would Ban Consideration of Job Applicant’s Prior Salary in Hiring & Setting Pay - The...more

Expiration of COVID-19 Travel Restrictions

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 5/12/2023

The last-standing COVID-19-related travel restrictions will soon expire. Bringing the United States in line with most countries around the world, after May 11, 2023, non-citizen, nonimmigrant air passengers need not show...more

End of the Federal Contractor COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate

Wiley Rein LLP on 5/12/2023

WHAT: The Biden Administration announced the rescission of its COVID-19 vaccination requirements for government contractors along with federal employees and certain healthcare workers. The President followed this announcement...more

President Biden Revokes Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Government... on 5/11/2023

On May 9, 2023, President Biden issued a highly anticipated Executive Order formally revoking the federal contractor COVID-19 vaccine mandate (Executive Order 14042) and the federal employee COVID-19 vaccine mandate...more

Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate to End

Blank Rome LLP on 5/5/2023

After several Federal District Courts issued injunctions against the federal contractor vaccine mandate in December 2021, the Federal Government issued guidance fully suspending its enforcement of the federal contractor...more

Feds officially end vax requirement for contractors

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 5/3/2023

You may have forgotten this was even “a thing.” Remember back in 2021 when President Biden issued Executive Order 14042, which required many federal contractors to ensure that employees working on federal contracts had...more

Federal Government to Wind Down Vaccination Mandates

McDermott+ on 5/2/2023

On May 1, 2023, the White House announced that the federal government will wind down certain of its remaining COVID-19 vaccination mandates (including those for federal workers, contractors and international air travelers)...more

Feds to End COVID-⁠19 Vaccination Requirements for Federal Employees, Contractors, International Travelers, Head Start Educators,...

Foley Hoag LLP on 5/2/2023

On May 1, 2023, the Biden administration announced it will end the COVID-19 vaccine requirements for federal employees, federal contractors, and international air travelers at the end of the day on May 11, 2023, the same day...more

Ninth Circuit Green Lights Contractor Vaccine Mandate

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 4/27/2023

On April 19, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a permanent injunction that had enjoined President Biden’s “Contractor Vaccine Mandate,” taking an expansive view of presidential authority under the...more

Ninth Circuit Dissolves Preliminary Injunction Of EO 14042 Contractor Vaccine Mandate

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Government... on 4/25/2023

On April 19, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit deviated from its sister circuits and reversed the Arizona district court’s preliminary injunction of the contractor COVID-19 vaccine mandate issued pursuant...more

Duty to Defend Triggered for Judicial Sanctions on Attorney who Lied About COVID Vaccination Status

Wiley Rein LLP on 4/11/2023

The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, applying Mississippi law, has held that a federal employee professional liability policy insurer’s duty to defend was unambiguously triggered by...more

What Remains of the COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate, and What Insights Can Federal Contractors Draw From the Experience?

Wiley Rein LLP on 3/1/2023

Ask someone you know about the COVID-19 vaccination requirements for contractors, and you might get an, “Oh yeah, what happened to that?” Issued in early September 2021, Executive Order (EO) 14042, Ensuring Adequate COVID...more

COVID-19 May Be Over, but Fight Over the Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Is Not

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 2/3/2023

On January 30, 2023, the Biden administration stated that it intends to extend the previously declared COVID-19 national emergency and the separately declared public health emergency until May 11, 2023, and then end both...more

Sixth Circuit Follows Suit In Affirming Preliminary Injunction Of Contractor Vaccine Mandate

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Government... on 1/19/2023

Appeals for the Sixth Circuit joined the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits in upholding a preliminary injunction against the enforcement of the Biden Administration’s effort to impose on federal contractors a variety of COVID-19...more

Fifth Circuit Affirms Preliminary Injunction Of Contractor Vaccine Mandate

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Government... on 12/22/2022

A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on December 19, 2022, upheld a preliminary injunction of Executive Order 14042, halting the Biden administration’s effort to impose on federal contractors a...more

Ongoing Uncertainty Surrounds COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Government Contractors

Stinson LLP on 11/1/2022

The patchwork collection of state and federal requirements applicable to COVID-19 vaccination continues to remain in flux. Beginning December 2021, there was a nationwide stay in the implementation of Executive Order 14042's...more

EO 14042: OMB Guidance Keeps Enforcement On Hold “At This Time”

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Government... on 10/27/2022

On October 19, 2022, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published its first set of interim guidance for agencies regarding the Federal Government’s enforcement of Executive Order 14042 (“EO 14042”). In addition to...more

Safer Federal Workforce Posts Update on Contractor Vaccine Mandate

Maynard Nexsen on 10/21/2022

On October 19, 2022, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force published an update for federal contractors regarding new guidance from the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) on the contractor vaccine mandate....more

Safer Federal Workforce Task Force Issues New Statement on Vaccine Mandate

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 10/20/2022

On December 7, 2021, in Georgia v. Biden, Case No. 1:21-cv-163, a federal district court judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia issued a preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of the...more

IT’S ALIVE! The Government Contractor Vaccine Mandate, Back for One More Round

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 10/20/2022

Unbelievably, after the 11th Circuit narrowed the nationwide injunction issued by the Southern District of Georgia on August 30, which took effect when the court issued its mandate on October 18, the government began...more

Federal Contractor COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Looks to Return, With Potential Updates

Polsinelli on 10/19/2022

As we previously reported, on August 26, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a decision narrowing the nationwide injunction against the COVID-19 vaccination mandate for federal contractor employees...more

Federal Contractor COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements: Are Changes Coming?

Bracewell LLP on 10/18/2022

Just over a year ago, President Biden issued an Executive Order requiring federal agencies to amend all contracts to mandate compliance with Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (the “Task Force”) guidance. The Task Force then...more

New Guidance on Contractor Vaccine Mandate Anticipated Soon

Littler on 10/18/2022

On Friday, October 14, 2022, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force (“Task Force”) announced that they anticipate further guidance will be issued following the narrowing of the...more

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