On January 6, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Head Start (OHS) promulgated a Final Rule updating the Interim Final Rule [...]
Given the “current high levels of [COVID] vaccine- and infection-induced immunity and the availability of effective treatments and prevention tools”, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently updated its COVID-19 [...]
Despite recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court on COVID-19 vaccine mandates for large employers and health care facilities, questions still abound over the future of Executive Order 14042 (the “Executive Order”). The [...]
On January 13, 2022, a divided United States Supreme Court issued two landmark opinions on vaccination mandates, which may foreshadow the fate of the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children [...]
On November 5, 2021, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an Interim Final Rule (IFR) requiring covered facilities, including Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), to develop policies and procedures [...]
In a per curiam opinion, a divided United States Supreme Court stayed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA”) vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard (ETS), thereby rejecting the immediate imposition of a [...]
Two recent court decisions provide temporary relief to Head Start programs facing a January 31, 2022 deadline from the Biden administration that mandated vaccines for all workers and masks for all students aged [...]
On October 25, 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its technical assistance document, What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws, [...]
On September 9, 2021, the Biden Administration released a six-prong COVID-19 Action Plan designed to employ a “science-based approach to vaccinate the unvaccinated, protect the vaccinated, keep schools safely open, increase testing [...]
The Biden administration plans to initiate rulemaking requiring all Head Start and Early Head Start teachers and staff to receive COVID-19 vaccination in an effort to allow schools to open safely. The Office [...]
