Some federal contract workers get pass on safety protocol
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Federal contract workers who telecommute from their home office do not need to mask up or maintain social distancing to meet President Joe Biden’s new requirements for managing COVID-19.
Thanks for clearing that up, Safer Federal Workforce Task Force, which addressed the concern in its question and answer section of its newly released paper COVID-19 Workplace Safety: Guidance for Federal Contractors and Subcontractor.
And now for the fine print: they still need to get vaccinated. But mask-wearing while working in your pajamas? Skip!
As stated in watertight legalese, according to the Sept. 24 document, the vaccine mandate stands “even if the employee never works at either a covered contractor workplace or Federal workplace during the performance of the contract.”
Yet, because a “covered contractor employee’s residence is not a covered contractor workplace… while in the residence the individual need not comply with requirements for covered contractor workplaces, including those related to masking and physical distancing, even while working on a covered contract.”
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