COVID-19 Safety Plan

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is committed to implementing COVID-19 safety and health precautions to protect our employees and by extension their families and the Nation we serve. While protecting the homeland from threats such as COVID-19, DHS must also protect the tens of thousands of employees standing guard at the borders, protecting the traveling public, securing our critical infrastructure, and performing vital missions domestically and abroad every day. It is important to remember that over 65% of the DHS workforce continued to report to work in-person, serving their fellow citizens throughout the pandemic.

We developed and keep updated, workforce safety guidance and employee COVID-19 resources, in response to new and emerging information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health and in accordance with the Executive Orders, regulations, and Administration guidance and guidelines of the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force. Protecting the safety and health of our employees and their families while ensuring the continuity of our important missions and operations is one of our top priorities and is critical for national security.

To ensure compliance with an applicable preliminary nationwide injunction, which may be supplemented, modified, or vacated, depending on the course of ongoing litigation, the Federal Government will take no action to implement or enforce Executive Order 14042. For existing contracts or contract-like instruments (hereinafter “contracts”) that contain a clause implementing requirements of Executive Order 14042, the Government will take no action to enforce the clause implementing requirements of Executive Order 14042, absent further written notice from the agency, the Department will comply with all relevant court orders, including by following relevant OMB and Safer Federal Workforce Task Force guidance.