{"id":1640122,"date":"2022-09-13T13:51:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1640122"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:51:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:51:33","slug":"biden-administration-decides-not-to-enforce-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-for-federal-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-decides-not-to-enforce-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-for-federal-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Decides Not to Enforce COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-administration-decides-not-to-enforce-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-for-federal-contractors%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1640122&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has opted not to enforce a COVID-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-vaccine-mandate\">vaccine mandate<\/a> for federal contractors, following a recent court decision that enabled the government to enforce the rule in some parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The White House Safer Federal Workforce quietly updated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saferfederalworkforce.gov\/contractors\/\">its website<\/a> on Aug. 31 to say that the government \u201cwill take no action to implement or enforce\u201d Biden\u2019s executive order mandating COVID-19 vaccination for contractors. Clauses in existing agreements that implement requirements of the order will also not be enforced \u201cabsent further written notice,\u201d the workforce added.<\/p>\n<p>The workforce also made other updates, including clarifying that screening for COVID-19 symptoms for contractors can be self-conducted and does not need to be verified by government workers.<\/p>\n<p>The moves came after a federal appeals court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/federal-court-partially-lifts-ban-on-biden-administrations-covid-vaccine-mandate-for-contractors_4696160.html\">partially lifted<\/a> a nationwide ban on enforcement of the order. The decision, taken together with rulings from other courts, means the government could have begun enforcing the order in 39 states. Workers with the\u00a0Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), which has sued the government, were designated as exempt no matter where they\u2019re based.<\/p>\n<p>The workforce did not respond to a request for comment on why it decided not to enforce the order. It said on its site that it wanted to \u201censure compliance with an applicable preliminary nationwide injunction, which may be supplemented, modified, or vacated, depending on the course of ongoing litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Possible Motivation <\/p>\n<p>The administration is already facing multiple suits regarding the mandate, and the decision could stem from wanting to avoid additional litigation,\u00a0Ben Brubeck, ABC\u2019s vice president of regulatory, labor, and state affairs, told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s possible that they are worried that if they put the policy back in place they\u2019ll end up getting additional lawsuits filed in some of those other states,\u201d Brubeck said.<\/p>\n<p>After the recent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has opted not to enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, following a recent court decision that enabled the government to enforce the rule in some parts of the country. The White House Safer Federal Workforce quietly updated its website on Aug. 31 to say that the government \u201cwill take [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}