COVID Vaccine Mandates for Contractors: New Guidance

Nichols Liu – In our September 17, 2021 Insight, Mandates Are Coming, we highlighted President Biden’s Executive Order 14042 (“EO”) that requires federal contractors to implement a host of COVID-19 safeguards in connection with federal government contracts or contract-like instruments. As required by the EO, on September 24, 2021 the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force released guidance detailing the specifics of a new contract clause and broad and far-reaching new protocols to be followed.