CT Health Department fines more than 100 long-term care facilities for noncompliance with COVID-19 reporting...
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 23, 2021
More than 100 long-term care facilities in Connecticut have been fined a total of $19,000 to date for failure to report their compliance with Gov. Ned Lamont’s (D) executive order 13F that gave long-term...
24 state attorneys general threaten legal action over ‘disastrous and counterproductive’ vaccine...
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 20, 2021
President Joe Biden’s plan to require employers with 100 or more workers to mandate COVID-19 vaccination or frequent testing is meeting with opposition at the state level, with 24 Republican attorneys...
Federal judge rejects Florida AG’s case to block vaccination rule for healthcare workers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 23, 2021
U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers on Saturday denied a motion by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody asking for a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order against the Centers for Medicare...
Lawsuit challenges Maine’s vaccination mandate for healthcare workers on religious grounds
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 30, 2021
National religious organization Liberty Council has filed a lawsuit on behalf of nine “Jane Doe” healthcare workers against long-term care organizations, Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) and other defendants,...
‘Hung out to dry’: Groups urge extension for vaccine mandate in Maine
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 31, 2021
Five healthcare advocacy groups are asking Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) to extend the deadline for mandatory vaccines for healthcare workers across the state, citing a “severe and worsening essential support...
States navigate implementing COVID-19 vaccine requirements
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 04, 2021
Today is the day that Connecticut’s long-term workers and other workers employed by the state are required to comply with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate or agree to regular testing. The deadline was postponed...
Federal vaccine mandate challenges mounted by states; court issues temporary stay
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 08, 2021
Before even two days had passed after the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued COVID-19 vaccination requirements Thursday, a federal appeals court temporarily blocked...
With business support lacking, Ohio Legislature pulls vaccine mandate exemption legislation
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 01, 2021
A vote on a bill that would grant numerous exemptions to workers subject to employer vaccine mandates was postponed in the Ohio House of Representatives on Wednesday after the Ohio Chamber of Commerce...
State lawmakers ponder severing ties with OSHA over federal COVID vaccine mandate
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 28, 2021
Some Republican leaders in Florida are set on “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” by severing ties with the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration over the forthcoming...
Assisted living leaders urge Massachusetts governor to extend vaccine mandate to sector workers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 16, 2021
Advocates are calling on Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) to extend last week’s announcement requiring nursing home staff and contract employees to receive COVID-19 vaccinations be extended to include...