The court suggested that instead of enforcing a service-wide vaccine mandate and granting individual exemptions, the Air Force may be better off allowing troops to opt into the mandate instead. Doster v. Kendall in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Ohio b...
Stewart plans to revisit his decision once an ongoing class-action lawsuit challenging the vaccine mandate is resolved. The case, Hunter Doster, et al v. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, is heading toward a trial in U.S. District Court in Ohio. In July, a federal ...
onto active duty by Sept. 30. As of the end of December, it was nearly one-quarter of the way to that goal, according to data the service provided to Air Force Times. So, recruiters met their active duty goal for the first quarter of fiscal 2022, but recruiting slow...
Air Force Academy who have refused the COVID-19 vaccine will not be commissioned as military officers but will graduate with bachelor's degrees, the academy said Saturday. Academy spokesman Dean Miller said that a fourth cadet who had refused the vaccine until about a week ago, decided t...
No domestic vaccine mandate comingbecause of masking rulessuggestingthe federal mask mandate probably gets extended one more time. Oddly he explains the vaccine requirement for arrivals by non-U.S. residents as being ‘because different countries have different standards’huh?
Until theCOVID-19 vaccine, very few military members sought religious exemptions to any vaccines. Lt. Col. Brian Maguire, an Air Force Academy spokesman, said that while vaccination status may hinder the graduation of the four seniors, "there are still two weeks until graduation, so their stat...
something still fresh in the mind of New Yorkers. And she made those mandates temporary – everyone could understand what was at stake, and that they were only being asked to take preventive measures for a limited time. She lifted the mandate as the immediate risk subsided. That...
As vaccine deployments ramp up, we continue to work with the Government of Canada on the evolution of safe and science-based test and quarantine relief measures with a view to safely restarting our sector. We know that Canadians are looking forward to re-connecting with friends and family and...
According to a WestJet spokesperson, less than 300, or four per cent, of its 7,300 employees have been placed on a one-month leave, after which they may lose their jobs. The vaccine mandate extends from the federal government, which in September said that all federally regulated transport...
Delta CEO: Employee vaccination rate high without mandate 'divisiveness' Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian says employee vaccination has been effective without forcing a mandate. Delta Air Linesis the only U.S. carrier to hold off on enforcing a coronavirus vaccine mandate for employees and CEO Ed...