The Supreme Court on Jan. 13 halted enforcement of a controversial emergency rule that would have required business with more than 100 employees to require workers to have COVID-19 vaccines or else undergo weekly testing.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has officially addressed the issue of whether truck drivers are subject to its controversial COVID-19 vaccine-or-test emergency rule.
The U.S. Supreme Court is returning to the bench early to hear a challenge to the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine/testing requirements for larger employers. The trucking industry is among those groups watching the situation closely.
The American Trucking Associations is one of a number of groups appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court after a lower court decision reinstating OSHA’s COVID-19 vaccination/testing mandate.
A number of lawsuits challenging the Biden administration’s emergency regulation mandating COVID-19 vaccines or weekly testing are being consolidated and could end up at the Supreme Court.
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Retailers and trucking groups have said they are especially concerned about the potential impact of the federal COVID-19 vaccine/testing mandate on an already-stressed supply chain.
Trucking groups are unhappy that the new emergency rule mandating COVID-19 vaccinations or testing does not exempt truck drivers, despite lobbying efforts, and warn that the new rules will make the supply-chain crisis worse.
An emergency regulation regarding COVID-19 on its way from OSHA has many trucking companies, especially larger ones, concerned. How worried should you be?
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