On January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued an opinion ruling that the parties challenging OSHA’s COVID-19 Vaccine and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard, which required private US employers with 100 or more employees to mandate vaccination or regular testing of their workforce, were likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that OSHA lacked the authority to impose the standard. On the same day, the Court also issued an opinion upholding the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services vaccine mandate, requiring healthcare workers at facilities regulated by Medicare and Medicaid to be fully vaccinated.
In this video, our Labor and Employment lawyers discuss what the Court’s two opinions tell us about the likely fate of the Biden Administration’s federal contractor vaccine mandate.
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