Posted on 10/14/2021 5:01:26 PM PDT by Mount Athos
This week, a month after Joe Biden announced his COVID vaccine mandate on all business with 100 or more employees, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) submitted its proposed rule to the Office of Management and Budget for review.
The Labor Department stated, “The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been working expeditiously to develop an emergency temporary standard that covers employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workers are fully vaccinated or undergo weekly testing to protect employees from the spread of coronavirus in the workplace.”
A “feature” of the new OSHA rule will require employers to give paid time off for their employees to get the COVID vaccine and for recovery if needed. Those companies caught not complying would face “substantial fines” upwards of $14,000 per violation.
It will be interesting to see how the new OSHA regulation will handle another issue — thus far only one of the vaccines, the Pfizer/BioNTech version, has received FDA approval. Will employees who have already received the Moderna or Johnson&Johnson vaccines still be considered in compliance under OSHA’s rule despite the fact that neither has received FDA approval?
Meanwhile, 24 states’ Republican attorneys general have been waiting for OSHA to produce the finalized rule so they can follow through on their threat to sue the Biden administration over this “disastrous and counterproductive” mandate. Biden lectured when announcing his mandate, “We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin.” Yeah, well, the feeling is mutual.
The final observation is the fact that many individuals have decided not to get a COVID vaccine because they have already contracted and recovered from the coronavirus and therefore have natural immunity. Nevertheless, because the Biden administration, companies, and other entities are still ignoring the science of natural immunity, these employees will be ostracized and forced out of their jobs. Indeed, a record 4.3 million workers recently quit their jobs, often because of such mandates. As we noted earlier this week, that has affected everything from police departments to airline flights.
In Boston, 812 city employees — equivalent to 4% of the city’s workforce — were just suspended without pay for failure to meet the city’s vaccine mandate. Now, thanks to Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate, what’s happening in Boston will be repeated across the entire country. Let’s go, Brandon.
I don’t see OSHA in the Constitution
Not that matters anymore….
OSHA isn’t an authority to issue medical demands.
Liberals think if they cannot do something then they twist things until they think they have found legal justifications.
SAFETY FIRST!
common sense last
Maybe 50% Chicago police are gonna walk off at midnight.
bttt
OSHA has no standing.
What’s a Constitution?
/s
This kind of reminds me of the publicly elected Soviet 17th Congress of 1934:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(Bolsheviks)
Stalin was not happy with the way they voted.
So—first he abolished the Congress.
Then the real fun started:
“of the 139 members and candidates of the Central Committee who were elected at the 17th Congress, 98 persons, i.e., 70 per cent, were arrested and shot (mostly in 1937-1938)”
If there is no rule of law, then all that is left is the rule of men.
Totally illegal rulemaking.
The President cannot “ORDER” or “dictate” to a department to make a rule. That would be a “dictatorship”.
This is called The Hereos Act. Laughable.
It ain’t a stinking law!!!
Am I missing something? I know I’m kind of dense sometimes, but what I’m getting from the article is that OSHA presented a PROPOSED rule. A proposal is not a rule, and a so-called “rule” is not a law.
By the time this bureaucracy of Mop & Cone Police get their policies and procedures in place, Covid will be a thing of the past and Biden will have long since be deceased.
Natural born citizen is in the Constitution and when ALL of our elected and appointed decided it didn’t matter anymore is when we lost the Constitution.
No one born with more than ONE nationality is NATURALLY an American.
It’s still very big news, to get any information on this subject at all, since it will affect most everyone working for a large company.
Even if the proposal isn’t finalized yet.
Still not legal.
I’m pretty sure that OSHA has only submitted the mandate for public comments.
Why are you restating what is in the first sentence of the article? Did you have a comment?
I stand corrected, the mandate is just a draft that OSHA submitted to the OMB which has 90 days to review it or send it back for revision.
THERE STILL IS NO MANDATE!
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