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Governor Sisolak Ends State Employee Covid-19 Testing Program

March 23, 2022 10:48 amMarch 24, 2022 9:19 am

Governor Steve Sisolak has officially ended the weekly Covid-19 testing program for unvaccinated state employees. Per a memorandum shared with The Nevada Globe by a source: When the state began its first of a kind vaccination or testing program, nearly 50 percent of the state workforce was testing weekly. This...

Sisolak Mandates Unvaccinated Nevada State Workers Pay for COVID-19 Testing

December 2, 2021 4:18 pmDecember 3, 2021 2:36 pm

Today, the board of Nevada’s Public Employee Benefits Program (PEBP), which provides health and life insurance to approximately 70,000 people including state employees and their dependents, decided to start charging unvaccinated state employees and their dependents a monthly insurance surcharge for testing costs. Nevada is the first state to adopt...