As the business community patiently awaits a ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on whether the Fifth Circuit correctly stayed the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard, we did get a significant Sixth Circuit ruling yesterday. The court confirmed that the entire court will not yet decide whether the ETS is…
Image Credit: Openclipart.org (For private sector employers, at least.) Last month, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed OSHA vax-or-test mandate. Last week, a Louisiana federal judge entered a nationwide injunction against the CMS healthcare COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Yesterday, a Georgia federal judge completed the trinity with a nationwide temporary ban on President…
Image Credit: Openclipart.org Wait, what? I’ll clear this up for you. First, let’s do a quick recap. On November 20, a federal court in Florida denied the State of Florida’s attempt to enjoin the interim final CMS rule mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for all covered healthcare staff. You can view a…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com Weekdays since last vaccine mandate post: 1 0. (Sorry.) Even with my crypto mining servers recommissioned to track the pending vaccinate mandate lawsuits throughout the country, some items slip through the cracks. So, I must tip my crushed velvet, gold-trimmed blogger cap to Rosie Manins at Law360…
Image by torstensimon from Pixabay Yesterday, I mentioned briefly that a Louisiana federal judge entered a nationwide injunction against the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services healthcare COVID-19 vaccine mandate (the “CMS Rule”). The CMS Rule requires the staff of twenty-one types of Medicare and Medicaid healthcare providers to receive one vaccine by…
Photo Credit: Photofunia.com So much for that glass being half-full. For the government’s vaccine mandates, things are going from bad to — ah, you can read this sign. Yesterday, a Louisiana federal judge entered a nationwide injunction against the CMS healthcare COVID-19 vaccine mandate. I’ll detail that tomorrow. Today, I’ve…
S nova, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons What do we have here? Is that glass half-full or half-empty? A glass half-full. If you’re the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), perhaps you view the glass as half-full. Why? Because on November 20, a federal court in Florida denied…
Image by tigerlily713 from Pixabay I know. You have a business to run, and all of this uncertainty about whether OSHA can force COVID-19 vaccinations or weekly testing at companies with 100 or more employees isn’t helping. So, let’s see if we can at least clarify the timing. But, before…
Survey by Adrien Coquet from the Noun Project Thank you to those of you who participated in yesterday’s OSHA vax-or-test survey. ICYMI, I asked two questions of businesses with more than 99 employees that are neither federal contractors nor subject to the CMS vaccination mandate: What, if anything, has your…
Image Credit: Survey by Adrien Coquet from the Noun Project Over the weekend, a colleague asked a few of us how (if?) most private employers with more than 99 employees are prepping their workplaces for the OSHA vaccine-or-test mandate in light of its uncertain fate at the Sixth Circuit —…