On July 29, President Biden announced new vaccination guidelines for federal government employees and onsite government contractors. Every federal government employee and every government contractor who works on government property will be required to disclose their vaccination status. Any such employee or contractor who does not attest to being fully vaccinated will be required to wear a mask on the job at all times (no matter where they are physically located), to physically distance from all other employees and visitors, to comply with a weekly or twice-weekly COVID-testing regimen, and generally will be prohibited from travelling for work.
While these new guidelines do not currently extend to offsite government contractors, a White House press release noted that, “President Biden is directing his team to take steps to apply similar standards to all federal contractors.” So far, the government has not issued any formal rules or executive orders along these lines, but similar requirements for the government-contractor workplaces may be coming soon.
