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April 12, 2024

Note: On April 12, 2024, President Biden revoked the 2021 executive order that had established the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force. As a result, the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force no longer exists and this website will no longer be updated. This website is preserved as it existed on April 12, 2024, for archival purposes only.

May 12, 2023

On May 9, 2023, President Biden signed an Executive Order on Moving Beyond COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements for Federal Workers revoking Executive Orders 14042 and 14043, effective 12:01 AM EST on May 12, 2023.
Effective May 12, 2023, all prior guidance from the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force implementing the requirements of Executive Orders 14042 and 14043, and the FAR Council’s September 30, 2021 guidance regarding deviations to the FAR to implement Executive Order 14042, has also been revoked.
Updates to FAQs on Contractors, Leave, and Vaccination
Updated overview for Federal Contractors

May 1, 2023

Update on Executive Order 14043 and Executive Order 14042

October 19, 2022

Update on Executive Order 14042 (Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors)

October 14, 2022

Update on Executive Order 14042 (Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors)

September 15, 2022

Updated Model Agency COVID-19 Safety Principles
Updates to FAQs on Building Operations, Leave, Post-Exposure Precautions and Isolation, Travel, and Vaccination

August 31, 2022

New FAQs on Building Operations
New and updated FAQs on Mask-Wearing, Post-Exposure Precautions and Isolation, Signage, Testing, and Vaccination
Updated FAQs on Contractors, Exceptions, Leave, Symptom Screening, Travel, and Visitors (including Meetings, Events, and Conferences)
Updated overview for Federal Contractors
Updated overview on the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force

August 17, 2022

New implementation guidance on updates to Federal agency COVID-19 Workplace Safety Protocols (PDF, Download Adobe Reader)
Updated implementation guidance on COVID-19 Community Levels (PDF, Download Adobe Reader)
Updated FAQs Related to Compliance with the Applicable Preliminary Nationwide Injunction on Implementation and Enforcement of the Vaccination Requirement Pursuant to Executive Order 14043 (PDF, Download Adobe Reader)

June 3, 2022

New and Updated FAQs on Exceptions, Leave, Mask-Wearing, Official Travel, and Testing, and Updated FAQs on Contractors, Quarantine and Isolation, Symptom Screening, Vaccinations, and Visitors

May 27, 2022

Updated Certification of Vaccination form

March 11, 2022

New FAQs on Visitors, and updated FAQs on Vaccinations and Contractors

February 28, 2022

New FAQs on Mask-Wearing, and updated overview and FAQs on Local Conditions, Testing, and Signage

January 27, 2022

New FAQs on Quarantine and Isolation, new and updated FAQs on Vaccinations and Leave, and updated FAQs on Testing and Signage

January 24, 2022

Updated overview and updates on vaccinations

January 22, 2022

Updated overview and updates on vaccinations

January 11, 2022

New and updated FAQs for Testing and Vaccinations

December 9, 2021

Updated overview for Federal Contractors

November 29, 2021

Updated FAQs for Vaccinations

November 19, 2021

New and updated FAQs for Vaccinations and Contractors

November 10, 2021

Updated Guidance for Federal Contractors and Subcontractors (note: a revised PDF was posted on November 11, 2021 that corrected an inadvertent typographical error) and new and updated FAQs for Contractors

November 1, 2021

New FAQs for Contractors

October 29, 2021

New FAQs for Vaccinations and Leave

October 21, 2021

New FAQs for Vaccinations and Contractors

October 4, 2021

New FAQs for Vaccinations (on Limited Exceptions to Vaccination Requirement and on Vaccination Documentation and Information)

October 1, 2021

New and updated FAQs for Vaccinations
New guidance for agencies from the FAR Council pursuant to Executive Order 14042, Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors

September 30, 2021

New overview for Federal Contractors and FAQs for Federal Contractors

September 24, 2021

New Guidance for Federal Contractors and Subcontractors

September 16, 2021

New and updated FAQs for Vaccinations

September 13, 2021

Updates to COVID-19 Workplace Safety: Agency Model Safety Principles and also various new and updated FAQs
NOTE: Implementation guidance on the President’s Executive Order on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees is forthcoming and will be released soon by the Task Force.