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As companies weighed when to return to the office and whether to require COVID-19 vaccines, HR professionals have been forced into a new focus on public health.

Vaccine mandates. Boosters. Exemptions. Testing protocol. Just a handful of public health questions that human resources departments now have to answer.

Rule faces uncertainty amid legal battles, shifting deadlines and rising COVID case counts.

The orders from the Biden administration in November had seemed clear -- large employers were to get their workers fully vaccinated by early next year, or make sure the workers were tested weekly. But a little more than a month later, the Labor Department's vaccine rule has been swept into confusion and uncertainty by legal battles, shifting deadlines and rising covid case counts that throw the very definition of fully vaccinated into question.

Companies are struggling to figure out what to do as legal battles and rising Covid cases complicate their plans. Even up in the air: What does “fully vaccinated” mean?