Posted on 08/18/2022 8:01:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The guidance is intended to bring the federal government in line with new recommendations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued last week.
The Biden administration is instructing agencies to cease all COVID-19 testing aimed specifically at unvaccinated employees, marking a new approach in the fight against the coronavirus and the push to get all federal workers inoculated.
Agencies will no longer conduct “serial screening testing” based on vaccination status as they shift away from differential treatment based on whether employees are up to date on their shots. They will also stop asking employees, contractors and visitors if they are vaccinated before entering federal buildings as they will no longer differentiate safety protocols based on vaccination status. The administration distributed the guidance in an email from the Chief Human Capital Officers Council, which was obtained by Government Executive and first published by Federal News Network. The changes will go into effect by Aug. 22.
Some facilities in settings that require it will continue testing all employees. Agencies will not, however, initiate any new testing programs that are not already underway. Similarly, some agencies at certain sites can continue requesting vaccination information, but the council told agencies to stop using the governmentwide vaccination certification form.
Unvaccinated employees with potential exposure to COVID-19 will no longer face different isolation requirements. Instead, they will follow the same protocols as their vaccinated colleagues. That means the workers will not have to stay home and quarantine after an exposure, so long as they remain asymptomatic.
The administration is instructing employees to continue masking up in areas with high levels of COVID-19 transmission. They will also have to follow any requirements from local jurisdictions.
The instructions come from the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force, which has yet to update its website with the new guidance. The CHCO Council said the group, made up of officials from the Office of Personnel Management, General Services Administration and White House, will do so soon. The guidance is intended to bring the federal government in line with new recommendations that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued last week, which similarly reduced many of the distinctions in the steps vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals should take.
Echoing CDC, the task force through the CHCO Council said vaccination is still critical, but the government’s fight against the outbreak has evolved.
“Compared to earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic, today the nation is in a stronger place with more tools—like vaccination, boosters, and treatments—that can protect us from severe illness from COVID-19,” the council said. “Staying up to date with COVID-19 vaccines, including recommended booster doses, remains the best way to significantly lower the risk of severe illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19.”
President Biden has not revoked his requirement that all federal employees are vaccinated, but the mandate is currently paused as a federal appeals court prepares to hear a lawsuit. Oral arguments are scheduled to take place next month. More than 100,000 federal employees were not vaccinated when the injunction went into effect, most of whom had requested a religious or medical exemption from the mandate. The Veterans Affairs Department has continued enforcement of its vaccine requirement, but as of July had disciplined just 74 employees in relation to it.
The administration instructed agencies to work with labor groups to implement the changes. Tony Reardon, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said he welcomed the new policy and had asked the White House’s task force to implement it.
“It has been clear that the screening testing of unvaccinated employees does little to protect the federal workforce when vaccinated and boosted individuals can spread the virus as well,” said Reardon, who continued to call on employees to get vaccinated and for the administration to provide staff with masks and well ventilated workspaces. “The pandemic has proven to be a nimble foe and we must constantly reassess the actions being taken to keep federal employees safe and on the job. This screening testing program reflected circumstances that were no longer applicable to the current environment.”
I’m a federal employee supervisor and one of my 9 direct reports held out with her medical exemption request (which we were told to just sit on and not approve or deny). She made it through some very dark times when Biden was threatening to discipline and fire all the unvaxxed Feds (I know many in the military were). She loves her job and didn’t waver. How absurd firing people looks now. I hope they all sue and get back pay.
Now how about opening the northern border to the unvaccinated. Ditto for Canada.
The vaunted vax is USELESS!
It sounds like you were put in a position you didn’t want to be.
The vaunted vax is USELESS!
...other than as a means of control and surplus population reduction.
Bkmk
You are a true Patriot!
Where do those who were forced to take these horrid $hots - to....keep their jobs....go to get their health/immune system back, now that this fraud regime has backtracked....just in time for the midterms????
I don’t think anyone will give them help.
Evil BigPharma will now profit off of *offering solutions*....via drugs, procedures, etc., for these folks.
How convenient....right before mid-terms......
Where do the folks forced to take the experimental gene therapy $hots, to keep their jobs, go to get their health back?
I spoke to a front desk hospital employee, the other day, who said she’s had china virus FOUR times. The last time put her in the hospital, with double pneumonia.
I knew the answer...but...asked her if she’d had the $hots....knowing she HAD to have...to stay working at THIS particular hospital. She of course said, “Yes! And, all of my boosters, too!”
Heartbreaking.
don’t forget that most school shooters are on some type of mind-altering pharma drug - never talked about and covered up. Never discussed as a possible cause of sending these freaks over the edge.
BioMedical-Pharmaceutical Complex!
You mean you could actually understand her woofa-woofa from behind that all-effective, all-preventative “mask”?
/s
The school shooters have now graduated to workplaces, shopping malls, and other “weapon free” soft targets.
It was just reported on Newsmax that the Biden admin will NOT be purchasing anymore vaccines OR tests in the fall!! These bastards have ruined countless lives and NOW will just slither away like NOTHING ever happened utter SCUM!!
:-)
Funny you mention THAT.
Half of the people in the main entrance were NOT wearing masks. That’s what started up my conversation with her. I was shocked that they weren’t enforcing a mask policy.
She had to wear one...but, half of the visitors and some patients, were not.
It was just reported on Newsmax that the Biden admin will NOT be purchasing anymore vaccines OR tests in the fall!! These bastards have ruined countless lives and NOW will just slither away like NOTHING ever happened utter SCUM!!
This could explain why FRAUDci is pu$hing the horrid boo$ters on blacks, now. ....
Fauci urges Black Americans to get Covid booster shots in preparation for fall surge
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4086696/posts
We saw a Moderna ad, tonight....featuring a young black teen....encouraging other kids to get their boo$ters.....
They’re trying to use up all of the purchased $hots....
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