U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak said on Tuesday it will temporarily suspend a vaccine mandate for employees and now no longer expects to be forced to cut some service in January.
In a memo seen by Reuters, Amtrak Chief Executive Bill Flynn said the railroad would allow employees who were not vaccinated to get tested.
Amtrak cited a U.S. district court decision that halted the enforcement of President Joe Biden's executive order mandating vaccines for federal contractors by January. Amtrak added that employees "required to submit testing and fail to do so will be placed on an unpaid leave of absence initially." Republican Representative Sam Graves had criticized the planned cuts and said Tuesday the Biden administration's vaccine mandate "would have delivered less service for the taxpayers footing the bill."
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