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Feds can still take administrative leave to get COVID-19 booster shots

The Safer Federal Workforce Task Force is sunsetting, but federal employees can still take four hours of paid administrative leave to get COVID-19 boosters.

Federal Newscast

No COVID mandate for feds is Biden's newest COVID mandate

Workforce

Federal appeals court upholds ban on vaccine mandate for federal employees

Contracting

Contractors are suddenly facing a slew of mandates and they're all expensive

Agency Oversight

White House prepares for partial lift on federal contractor vaccine mandate ban

Federal Newscast

Biden Administration suggests possible return to vaccine mandates for federal contractors

Commentary

Federal contractor vaccine mandate — where do things stand now?

FILE - A syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic at the Keystone First Wellness Center in Chester, Pa., Dec. 15, 2021. A federal appeals court is being asked Monday, May 23, 2022, to reconsider its decision allowing the Biden administration to require that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Federal Newscast

SBA reinvigorates women-owned small business contracting initiative

FILE - In this March 29, 2021 file photo, a worker readies syringes with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in Metairie, La. Moderna plans to expand the size of its study in younger children to better detect rare side effects. The company said Monday, July 26, 2021 it is in talks with the Food and Drug Administration to enroll more patients in its study of the vaccine in children under 12 years old and younger. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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Contracting

Appeals court partially lifts ban on federal contractor vaccine mandate

FILE - A health worker administers a dose of a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic in Norristown, Pa. on Dec. 7, 2021. In a reversal for President Joe Biden, a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Monday, June 27, 2022, agreed to reconsider its own April ruling that allowed the administration to require federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Workforce

The vaccine mandate arguments keep rolling on and on

FILE - Rhode Island Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Andrew Bates pulls up tape marking a line at a coronavirus mass-vaccination site at the former Citizens Bank headquarters in Cranston, R.I., June 10, 2021. Up to 40,000 Army National Guard soldiers across the country - or about 13% of the force — have not yet gotten the mandated COVID-19 vaccine, and as the deadline for shots looms, at least 14,000 of them have flatly refused and could be forced out of the service. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
Army

Army Guard troops risk dismissal as vaccine deadline looms

Sgt. Travis Snyder, Jose Picart
Defense

Yet another lawsuit challenging military's religious accommodation process for vaccines

A formation of U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons fly over during a centennial ceremony for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, in Arlington National Cemetery, on Veterans Day, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
Federal Newscast

New lawsuit filed on behalf of Air Force members with religious objections to COVID vaccine mandate

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2021 file photo, Fulton County Georgia elections workers process absentee ballots for the Senate runoff election in Atlanta. When voters in Florida and Georgia request mailed ballots next year, they will have to make sure they do one more thing before sending it in: provide proof of identification. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)
Federal Newscast

Postal Service agrees to provide more transparency during election season

FILE - Air Force Academy cadets make their way to their seats as family and friends cheer from the stands during the United States Air Force Academy's Class of 2021 graduation ceremony at the USAFA in Colorado Springs, Colo., on May 26, 2021. Four cadets at the Air Force Academy may not graduate or be commissioned as military officers in May 2022, because they have refused the COVID-19 vaccine, and they may be required to pay back thousands of dollars in tuition costs, according to Air Force officials. (Chancey Bush/The Gazette via AP, File)
Air Force

4 Air Force cadets may not graduate due to vaccine refusal

Denis McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, testifies before the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)
(AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)
Veterans Affairs

McDonough: 6 VA health care workers fired for not following COVID-19 workplace protocols

union, federal mediation and conciliation service
Contracting

Appeals court sees high bar to restoring federal contractor vaccine mandate

Joe Biden
Workforce

Appeals court OKs Biden federal employee vaccine mandate

In this Monday, July 18, 2016, An Indonesian health official prepares a vaccine injection during a revaccination program for children who were earlier given fake vaccines, at a community health center in Jakarta, Indonesia. Vials of counterfeit vaccines filled with saline solution and antibiotics have been discovered at 37 hospitals and clinics in nine cities, according to the Food and Drug Agency. So far, 23 people have been arrested, including three doctors. The number of affected children is still being investigated. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
Federal Newscast

Another court rules in favor of Navy sailors who refuse COVID-19 vaccine

FILE - Visitors walk outside the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Navy

High court gives Biden win for now in Navy vaccine case

US Navy Sailors with Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Sigonella, prepare and load a box of COVID-19 vaccines to be shipped to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) from Naval Air Station Sigonella.
Federal Newscast

Navy's vaccine mandate is front and center in court case today

FILE - In this May 18, 2020, file photo, Transportation Security Administration officers wear protective masks at a security screening area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash. The Biden administration says it is moving to increase the pay and union rights for security screeners at the nation’s airports. The Department of Homeland Security directed the acting head of the TSA to come up with a plan within 90 days to raise the pay of the screeners and expand their rights to collective bargaining. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Federal Newscast

Exposed to COVID-19 on the job? New website lets you join class-action lawsuit for hazard pay

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2019, file photo Rep. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., speaks as the House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington. Marshall, who is also a doctor, says he is taking hydroxychloroquine that President Donald Trump has touted as a treatment for the coronavirus, adding he doesn't have COVID-19 but he's been taking the malaria drug to hold off the virus. (House Television via AP, File)
Federal Newscast

Senate passes resolution blocking Biden admin's vaccine mandate for health care workers

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