(Source: Freight Waves, December 9, 2021)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Union Pacific, BNSF and Norfolk Southern are putting on hold requirements that all of their employees be vaccinated against COVID-19. The railroads had sought to issue companywide mandates because they are federal contractors and as a result, they needed to comply with a September presidential executive order requiring federal employees and contractors to be vaccinated. But a Tuesday decision by Judge R. Stan Baker with the U.S. District Court in Georgia called for a stay of the vaccine mandate for federal contractors. His decision — an injunction in a lawsuit involving the construction trade association Associated Builders and Contractors — puts the mandate’s implementation on hold for all federal contractors until legal challenges work themselves through the court process.
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