Some American Companies Dropping Vaccine Mandate for Employees After Supreme Court Ruling
Several large corporations across the country including Starbucks, General Electric, Intel and Adidas are dropping COVID-19 vaccine mandates and weekly testing policies.1 The policy changes came following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down COVID vaccine mandates for companies with more than 100 employees, which were put into place by the Biden administration. The administration’s […]
U.S. District Court in Texas Blocks Federal Employee COVID Vaccine Mandate
On Jan. 21, 2022, a Federal District Court in Texas temporarily blocked COVID-19 mandate for federal workers issued by the Biden administration.1 Judge Jeffrey Brown’s ruling applies nationwide.2 The federal worker mandate was issued on Sept. 9, 2021. According to the White House, as of December 2021, 97 percent of federal employees had been vaccinated […]
Unvaccinated Americans are Removed from Organ Transplant List
A young father of two children with a baby on the way, who was first in line for a heart transplant, was removed from the transplant list and denied the life-saving procedure when he failed to get the COVID-19 vaccination at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The patient, DJ Ferguson, has been hospitalized since […]
Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Temporarily Halts Biden Vaccine Mandate
On Nov. 8, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, covering parts of Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana, put a temporary stop to the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate announcing…
Federal Employees Fight COVID Vaccine Mandates in Court
With a looming deadline of Nov. 22, 2021, thousands of federal employees and contractors continue to push back against the Biden administration’s sweeping COVID vaccine mandates. According to The Washington Post, tens of thousands of federal employees remain unvaccinated pending word on whether religious or medical exemptions will be approved. Federal employees who fail to […]
Questions About Southwest Airlines’ Cancelled Flights Continue
Southwest Airline Pilots Association (SWAPA), a collective bargaining unit which represents more than 9,000 Southwest pilots, filed a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines on Aug. 30, 2021 asking the court for injunctive relief against the airlines continued violation of the parties’ Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) and the Railway Labor Relations Act. A CBA is a contract […]
