{"id":10231,"date":"2021-11-29T17:02:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T17:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/11\/29\/white-house-delays-federal-employee-vaccine-enforcement-until-new-year\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:25:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:25:29","slug":"white-house-delays-federal-employee-vaccine-enforcement-until-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/2021\/11\/29\/white-house-delays-federal-employee-vaccine-enforcement-until-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"White House delays federal employee vaccine enforcement until new year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>This story was updated Nov. 29, 2021, at 3:45 p.m. EST to include comments from the Office of Management and Budget.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Federal employees who have not received a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and are not awaiting a decision on a requested exemption from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/breaking-news\/2021\/09\/09\/biden-issues-full-vaccine-mandate-for-federal-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\">White House mandate<\/a> will not face the loss of their jobs until after the holiday season, according to an email sent Monday to President\u2019s Management Council members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The email, written by the Office of Management and Budget\u2019s deputy director for management, Jason Miller, and the Office of Personnel Management\u2019s director, Kiran Ahuja, celebrated the fact that 92 percent of the federal workforce is vaccinated and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/2021\/11\/22\/official-more-than-90-of-fed-workers-got-shots-by-deadline\/\" target=\"_blank\">more than 95 percent are compliant with the mandate<\/a>. President Joe Biden originally signed an executive order in September requiring all feds and government contractors to be vaccinated, though the timeline and details have shifted on several occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGiven that tremendous progress, we encourage your agencies to continue with robust education and counseling efforts through this holiday season as the first step in an enforcement process, with no subsequent enforcement actions, beyond that education and counseling and, if warranted, a letter of reprimand, for most employees who have not yet complied with the vaccination requirement until the new calendar year begins in January,\u201d Ahuja and Miller wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe understand that your agencies may need to act on enforcement sooner for a limited number of employees, such as where there are additional or compounding performance or workplace safety issues under consideration, but in general, consistency across government in further enforcement of the vaccine requirement after the start of the new calendar year is desired,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Agencies were previously instructed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/2021\/10\/01\/agencies-can-enforce-vaccinations-as-soon-as-nov-9\/\" target=\"_blank\">pursue a progressive discipline approach<\/a> to employees that refused to comply with the mandate, which included five days of counseling, a 14-day suspension and then removing that employee from federal service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That procedure would have resulted in many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/hr\/2021\/09\/14\/feds-have-two-months-to-get-their-covid-19-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\">noncompliant feds facing termination procedures<\/a> in the midst of the holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An OMB official clarified to Federal Times that the policy does not change the vaccination deadline for federal employees, which was Nov. 22, but that \u201cwe\u2019re seeing strong increase in compliance and believe this is the best approach to vaccinate more employees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe administration has done the right thing by listening to federal workers, taking their concerns seriously, and modifying the vaccine mandate policy to give those who haven\u2019t yet gotten vaccinated some peace of mind this holiday season,\u201d Everett Kelley, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said in a statement. \u201cOnce again, President Biden has demonstrated his commitment to hearing from rank-and-file federal employees through their unions and responding to workers\u2019 concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite consistently high compliance rates, the total 3.5 million employees covered by the federal mandate means more than 100,000 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