Attention federal contractors facing mandates to keep their jobs -- good news from the Attorney General of Montana:
"(President) Biden’s claims in his September 9 speech that federal contractors will be subject to mandatory vaccination requirements for their workforce were misleading. The administration’s Executive Order 14042 is directed at federal agencies – not federal contractors – and plainly states that the order only applies to new federal contracts or agreements or renewals of existing ones.
“By the plain language of the President’s Executive Order, there is no vaccination requirement imposed on existing federal contractors. It does not, and cannot, require federal contractors with existing agreements with the federal government to discriminate against their employees based on vaccination status,” Knudsen’s guidance states. “If the federal government has not executed a new contract with a federal contractor, then the President’s Executive Order simply does not apply. In such an instance, Montana law applies, and discrimination based on vaccination status is illegal.”"
https://dojmt.gov/ag-knudsen-issues-further-legal-guidance-on-the-biden-vaccine-mandate-for-federal-contractors/