Fisher Phillips Partners Co-author “Playbook for Federal Contractors and Subcontractors” After Nationwide Vaccine Mandate Blocked

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2.01.22

A federal court in Georgia recently granted an injunction that blocks the federal government from enforcing the federal contractor mandate, which aimed to require covered contractors and subcontractors to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations by Jan. 18, 2022. Chery Behymer and Hannah Sweiss published an article in Pratts’ Government Contracting Report reviewing the decision and offering contractors suggestions for dealing with uncertainty.

“Any employer covered by the federal contractor mandate in any location across the country has been granted a temporary reprieve. The problem is that we do not know how ‘temporary’ this reprieve will be, and how soon you may need to ramp up your compliance efforts if new life is breathed into the EO,” they wrote.

They offer “behind-the-scenes" steps that contractors may want to take in order to prepare for a possible resurrected contractor vaccine mandate.

Read the full article in Pratt’s Government Contracting Law Report .