Do you like superhero movies? If you’re like me, you eagerly await the premieres of the new Spiderman movie this week and the Dr. Strange movie next year, where our heroes are expected to delve into the problem of multiple parallel universes that collide and fray. They’ve got nothing on us — here in reality, we’ve been dealing with something much harder to figure out: the various federal vaccine mandates!
Earlier this year, we saw the promulgation of the Medicare CMS vaccine mandate, which, in turn, was followed by the federal contractor vaccine mandate, which was then followed by the OSHA vaccine mandate. Each of these directives shifted the burden of vaccination compliance to employers, which were left scrambling to develop policies and procedures to deal with the mandate applicable to them. In some cases, more than one mandate might apply to an employer. Employers then had short windows in which to scramble to gear up for compliance. Continue Reading