WASHINGTON—Credit unions continue to wrestle with employee vaccination policies after the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) withdrew its vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard (ETS), previously issued in November 2021.
Although OSHA has withdrawn the vaccination and testing ETS as an enforceable emergency temporary standard, the agency has not withdrawn the ETS as a proposed rule, NAFCU is reminding.
"OSHA strongly encourages vaccination of workers against the continuing dangers posed by COVID-19 in the workplace," the agency said in a statement.
The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month blocked enforcement of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine-or-test mandate for workers at large businesses by a 6-3 vote. According to the Court’s opinion, the mandate is a “significant encroachment into the lives—and health—of a vast number of employees.”