{"id":5545,"date":"2021-09-23T08:46:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T12:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5545"},"modified":"2021-09-23T08:46:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T12:46:41","slug":"liberty-university-implements-mask-mandate-for-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5545","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University implements mask mandate for employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesperson Scott Lamb said LU is mandating masks for employees under a new law from Virginia Governor Ralph Northam.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;On Aug. 30, [Governor Northam] signed, and it went into effect Sept. 8, new regulations statewide that require, through his Department of Labor, for all employees to mask. In areas where there&rsquo;s low transmission of COVID, vaccinated employees can take off the masks,&rdquo; said Lamb.<\/p>\n<p>Masks and vaccines remain optional for students. Liberty University is hosting another first-dose vaccine clinic Thursday for students and employees.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UTAustin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UTAustin<\/a> was peppered with questions about the new Liberty Institute at a faculty meeting this week. <\/p>\n<p>While UT tried to smooth over concerns, some professors say they remained worried the university is letting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/txlege?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#txlege<\/a> politicize the school.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gu05ntL67k\">https:\/\/t.co\/gu05ntL67k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kate McGee Balagia (@McGeeReports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McGeeReports\/status\/1440647252502974472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some professors said they\u2019re concerned UT-Austin is allowing the Legislature to politicize the university with the new center organized with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and conservative donors. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tc5JR4Gbge\">https:\/\/t.co\/Tc5JR4Gbge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TexasTribune\/status\/1440777929579917322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsls.com\/news\/local\/2021\/09\/22\/liberty-university-implements-mask-mandate-for-employees-under-new-virginia-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spokesperson Scott Lamb said LU is mandating masks for employees under a new law from Virginia Governor Ralph Northam.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;On Aug. 30,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5545\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University implements mask mandate for employees<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[221],"class_list":["post-5545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-university-implements-mask-mandate-for-employees","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1rr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5546,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions\/5546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}