On Monday, April 10, 2023, President Biden signed legislation ending the COVID-19 National Emergency immediately. This legislation ends the National Emergency one month earlier than the May 11 date previously announced by the White House and federal regulators. ...
On January 30, 2023, the Biden administration announced its intention to make final extensions of both the COVID-19 National Emergency (NE) and the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) through May 11, 2023, at which point both will end. These emergency declarations have been in place for...
To be clear, continuation of these emergency declarations until May 11 does not impose any restriction at all on individual conduct with regard to COVID-19. They do not impose mask mandates or vaccine mandates. They do not restrict school or business operations. They do not require the use o...
too, reflect its waning effect on day-to-day life. As of May 11, the federal government is no longer categorizing COVID-19 as a national public health emergency, and that means some of the policies and provisions adopted during the heigh...
“middle ground” between the pre-pandemic law and the total flexibility of the COVID-19 era. According to the official, HHS’s main goal has been to ensure that there is a rule in place before the public health emergency ends, so that patients aren’t immediately required to see a ...
As plan sponsors scramble to process the latest round of employee benefit plan changes triggered by SECURE 2.0, along with President Biden’s recent announcement of his intention to end the extended COVID national and public health emergencies on May 11, 2023, there are addit...
The termination of an emergency immigration restriction known asTitle 42marks a major policy shift in how the U.S. processes migrants who reach the southern border, including those hoping to ask for asylum. For over three years, since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. border offici...
Health officials across US warning families of rising cases of COVID, flu & RSV (VIDEO) “It’s been a tough week for Donald Trump. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago neighbors asked the city of Palm Beach, Florida, to enforce a 90’s legal agreement preventing the soon-to-be ex-president from mak...
The EEOC’s capstone guidance update makes clear that while COVID-19 is no longer a “public health emergency,” employers continue to have obligations under the ADA and other federal anti-discrimination laws related to the impact of the virus on the workplace. Additionally,a...
The COVID-19 pandemic was first declared a “Public Health Emergency” (PHE) by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on January 31, 2020, and was later declared a “National Emergency” on March 31, 2020. Since that time, the federal government ...