"It's tough when you're trying to run your business and you don't know which way you've got to go on any given day," said labor and employment lawyer Jacqueline Voronov of Hall Booth Smith. "It's even tougher when you've got to counsel a client." (Credit: Leigh Prather/Adobe Stock)
A federal vaccination mandate aimed at requiring companies with more than 100 employees to have staff vaccinate or test weekly for COVID-19 is off again as the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is withdrawing its temporary vaccination and testing emergency standard (ETS).
But, unlike prior pauses via court injunctions, this time the Biden administration itself has halted the vaccine-or-test mandate — in a move that's pleased Georgia's top attorney but frustrated some labor and employment lawyers.
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Cedra Mayfield
Cedra Mayfield is a litigation reporter with the Daily Report, the ALM newspaper in Atlanta. She can be reached at [email protected]. Twitter: @cedramayfield
