May 1 Biden administration announced the end of the federal employee mandate May 11 and Biden announced federal contractor vaccine mandate will end via Executive Order May 12 agencies should take no action to implement enforce COVID vaccination requirement per Executive Order 14043
Fifth Circuit affirmed injunction blocking enforcement of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 federal contractor vaccine mandate. Panel decision in State of Louisiana v. Biden allow mandate would result in enormous transformative expansion of the powers of the president.
Safer Federal Workforce Task Force issued updated guidance on federal contractor vaccine mandate and COVID-19 safety requirements. For now government is still not taking steps to mandate vaccines or enforce contract clauses implementing Executive Order EO 14042.
Eric Adams announced NYC City’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement for private sector employees terminate on November 1, 2022. Vaccine mandate December 2021, before Bill de Blasio left office. Mandate was far-reaching local action in US. Trend in NYC to relax COVID-19 restrictions.
A long-awaited decision from a federal appeals court just decided that some – but not all –federal contractors must comply with the federal contractor vaccine mandate in some but not.