vaccine mandate

Senate lawmakers Wednesday significantly scaled back legislation that would’ve largely prevented private employers from enforcing COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

The policy was approved by the commissioners Jan. 5 in response to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration's vaccine and testing standard.

We talk to a judicial expert about vaccine mandates for employees and court challenges to mandates. Indiana is setting records for COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. And a booming RV business has helped make the housing market in Elkhart one of the hottest in the nation.

Under the bill, which is set for a House vote Tuesday, businesses are allowed to require employees to be vaccinated. But if they do so, they’d have to accept exemptions for four reasons.

The Indiana House scrapped a proposal to raise unemployment insurance taxes as a penalty to employers unwilling to grant vaccine exemptions.

A complicated mix of federal rules and newly proposed state laws leave many companies wondering how to keep workers safe while honoring religious rights.

Bloomington hospital is moving to its new IU Health facility on the bypass. Construction on I-69 has routed traffic through Martinsville for the last year boosting the downtown economy.

Republican lawmakers are backing off their plan to return to the Statehouse next week to pass a bill that effectively bars employers from enforcing COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita filed the third of his planned lawsuits against the Biden administration’s workplace vaccine-or-test rules.

Universities that adopted COVID-19 vaccine mandates this fall have seen widespread compliance even though many schools made it easy to get out of the shots by granting exemptions to nearly any student who requested one.