Vax mandate for fed vendors

Court limits vax mandate; Biden task force says it will not enforce

      A federal appeals court on Aug. 26 exempted 7 states from the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors, while allowing the vaccine mandate to go into effect--at least temporarily--for other states.

      However, the mandate likely will not go into effect at all because the White House said after the court’s ruling it would not enforce the mandate.

      The appeals court decided that the Georgia judge who halted the vaccine mandate nationwide did not have the authority to do so. The court allowed the mandate to continue to be blocked for the states that brought the lawsuit--AL, GA, ID, KS, SC, UT and WV--along with the Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc.

      The court also opined that the vaccine mandate likely was an executive overreach by the White House and predicted it would not hold up in other lawsuits. Following that ruling, the Biden Administration on Aug. 31 announced it would not enforce the vaccine mandate.

      The White House’s Safer Federal Workforce Task Force put out the notice of non-enforcement.

      “To ensure compliance with an applicable preliminary nationwide injunction, which may be supplemented, modified, or vacated, depending on the course of ongoing litigation, the Federal Government will take no action to implement or enforce, ” referring to the vaccine mandate for federal contractors, the task force wrote in the notice.

More Information:
Safer Federal Workforce.gov posting: https://bit.ly/3TIn3zw
National Law Review story: https://bit.ly/3Rlqs5w

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