Moving Beyond COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements for Federal Workers
Headline: Federal COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for Workers and Contractors Revoked
What it does: Agencies must rescind and stop enforcing COVID-19 vaccination requirements and contractor safety protocols premised on the revoked orders.
- Federal employees no longer subject to a government-wide COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
- Federal contractors and subcontractors released from federally specified COVID-19 safety protocols.
- Agencies must rescind policies premised on the revoked orders and stop enforcement.
Summary
This order ends the government-wide COVID-19 vaccination requirement for federal employees and the specified safety protocols for federal contractors. It revokes the prior executive orders that created those requirements and says agency policies based on those orders may no longer be enforced.
The change takes effect at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on May 12, 2023. Vaccination remains encouraged as a health tool, but the administration states the country is no longer in the acute phase of the pandemic and federal mandates are no longer needed.
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