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President Biden’s COVID-19
Action Plan
Here’s What Businesses Need to Know About Vaccination Mandates
President Biden has issued
a comprehensive plan that
orders employers with 100 or more employees to mandate vaccination for their workers and requires other groups of employers to do the same. The clock is ticking on these orders, and there are many unanswered questions as well as lawsuits filed. Here’s what business owners and managers need to know.
By Marylou Fabbo, Esq. and LJohn S. Gannon, Esq.
ast month, President Biden issued a bold
new action plan aimed
at attacking COVID-19
and fighting the dangerous
Delta variant. The plan orders employers
with 100 or more employees to mandate that their workers get vaccinated. Similarly, the president’s plan requires the following groups of employees to be vaccinated: those working on federal government contracts (or subcon- tracts), healthcare workers, and federal government workers.
Not surprisingly, many businesses and politicians are unhappy with these mandates, and one state has already filed a lawsuit against the Biden adminis- tration challenging the plan and asking the court to declare it unconstitutional. Here are some takeaways for businesses as they prepare for the novel vaccine mandate.
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