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• Biden rescinds COVID-era executive orders, folding safer federal workforce task force - April 16, 2024

• The Office of Personnel Management issued new guidance last week rescinding some forms of COVID-19-related administrative leave, but preserving four hours of paid leave for federal employees to get vaccine booster shots.

  Erich Wagner, Government Executive 

  President Biden last week rescinded a trio of executive orders enacted during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, shuttering temporary panels like the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force and shuffling duties to a fledgling White House office devoted to pandemic response.
  
  The Executive Order on COVID-19 and Public Health Preparedness and Response, signed Friday, ends edicts aimed at preventing the hoarding of medical supplies, promoting pandemic-era travel safety policies and the order that required mask-wearing in federal facilities and creating the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force.

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