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Biden Administration Submits Private Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Review
The Epoch Times ^ | 10-12-21 | Zachary Steiber

Posted on 10/12/2021 8:27:14 PM PDT by MNJohnnie

President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday submitted a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers for review, the first solid step it’s taken since Biden announced plans for the requirement last month.

Biden said the Department of Labor would develop the mandate, centering around a provision that every company with more than 100 employees would need to receive proof of vaccination from each worker or make them get tested for COVID-19 once a week.

A Department of Labor spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email late Oct. 12 that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), an office within the agency, has been working “expeditiously” to develop the mandate, which it described as an “emergency temporary standard.”

Earlier Tuesday, as part of the regulatory review process, the agency “submitted the initial text of the emergency temporary standard to the Office of Management and Budget,” the spokesperson added.

Once the office concludes its review, the mandate will be published in the Federal Register. The public can view it and submit comments about it.

The submission is the first concrete step the administration has taken since Biden made his announcement on Sept. 9, leaving many business owners stunned.

“The bottom line: We’re going to protect vaccinated workers from unvaccinated co-workers. We’re going to reduce the spread of COVID-19 by increasing the share of the workforce that is vaccinated in businesses all across America,” Biden said from the White House.

The White House had said previously it wouldn’t support forcing Americans to carry proof of vaccination but has since ordered federal workers to get a vaccine before announcing a private company mandate.

The mandate has drawn significant pushback, with state-level officials in over half the states promising to fight it once it’s unveiled.

“The reality is, the president of the United States cannot just make up laws. That’s outside of his purview, outside of his constitutional role. The executive branch implements laws … that’s their job,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, said on EpochTV’s “Crossroads” last month.

“That’s not the way the Constitution works, so we are pretty sure what he’s doing will be unconstitutional, if it is what he said when he made the statement. So obviously, that would be for our first line of attack, just to say, ‘Look, you didn’t have the authority to do this,'” he added.

Many companies have expressed displeasure with the prospect of a mandate, though some have indicated support for the pending rule.

The White House has said the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 grants the Department of Labor office the authority to impose a mandate.

“I would say that requiring and mandating for businesses of 100 people or over vaccines is not a small task. That is a big bold proposal idea and something that we want to implement with as much clarity as we can,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Tuesday. “We know there will be questions, even after these rules are put out, we understand that. But that’s why we wanted to take a little bit of time, not too much time, to get it done.”


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: biden; california; covid; demagogicparty; mandate; nancypelosi; policestate; vaccine; vaccinemandate
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To: Cboldt

So any idea when this will actually be an OSHA standard and subject to litigation?


121 posted on 10/13/2021 7:03:10 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: LilFarmer
FRAUDci $cience
123 posted on 10/13/2021 7:09:37 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: MNJohnnie
Whatever it is, I'm against it.



What should be the GOP anthem
124 posted on 10/13/2021 7:16:14 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Hard times: hard men. Hard men: soft times. Soft times: soft men. Soft men: hard times)
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To: MNJohnnie
-- So any idea when this will actually be an OSHA standard and subject to litigation? --

No. News reports say is has been submitted to OMB for review. Once it is published, it could be published to take effect immediately - at which point it is ripe for litigation. How long will OMB take? Don;t know. Will there be a public comment period (typically 30 - 60 days), my guess is "no." This will be crammed down the throat of the public. It'll like have "reasonable accomodation" langauge for people who object on religious or medical grounds, but will expressly exclude natural immunity as a medical ground.

Once OMB concludes its review of the regulation, the emergency temporary standard will be published in the Federal Register, when it will go into effect.

If that news report (link) is correct, the regulation goes into effect immediatly on publication. OMB has no longer than 90 days. It went though this process with an OSHA rule that applies to health care workers. Went to OMB April 26, 2021, out of OMB June 10, 2021. Six to eight weeks.

Emergency temporary measure promulgated a year and a half later. What a sick and evil government we have.

125 posted on 10/13/2021 7:17:29 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Osagegirl

Most assuredly. My daughter was living with her when we all got covid...dtr texted me that shehad a fever and I told her to leave immediately and come to our home

Literally threw some quercitin and zinc in my mom’s back door and told her to take it for 10 days (we all did). Mom was the only one who had no symptoms

That was Nov 2020. Mom and I flew to Florida this July and I gave her the same protocol while we were there. She has bern totally fine


126 posted on 10/13/2021 7:21:00 AM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Back after a long hiatus. Now mygrandkidsgrandma)
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To: MNJohnnie; ransomnote; Jane Long; bitt; bagster; numberonepal; Cletus.D.Yokel; Cathi; greeneyes; ...

127 posted on 10/13/2021 7:21:01 AM PDT by grey_whiskers ((The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.))
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To: grey_whiskers

LOL! Stealing that!!


128 posted on 10/13/2021 7:23:00 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: SaveFerris

Been listening to this in the the car, several times over the past few days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFTwWNijJjA


Amen Brother. God said it, I believe it, and that’s final!

Romans 8:31
King James Version
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

One day soon, and very soon.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gxbtCQT58xM


129 posted on 10/13/2021 7:28:01 AM PDT by patriot torch
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To: Solson
Car= case

I was scratching my head over that one. 😄

130 posted on 10/13/2021 7:43:04 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: DSH

“OSHA is relying on the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 as providing the statutory authority for this Emergency Temporary Standard. See, specifically, 29 U.S.C. sec. 655(c)(1).”

Established by Article I of the Constitution, the Legislative Branch consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate, which together form the United States Congress. ...

Don’t see anything in there establishing OSHA as part of the legislature.


131 posted on 10/13/2021 7:43:16 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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To: MNJohnnie

If that were a real vaccination you wouldn’t need to protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated.


132 posted on 10/13/2021 7:47:36 AM PDT by Tennessee Conservative (My goal in life is to be the person my dog's think I am)
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To: MNJohnnie

Well we can worry more when they propose to remove the testing piece. What I see is that most firms won’t try to use the testing because of cost and will try to get their employees to accept the one time costs for the vaxxes! Or,they will try to make their employees bear the cost of the testing. Firms may also find themselves sued for not allowing the weekly testing that the mandate regs allow for(in lieu of the vaccinations).


133 posted on 10/13/2021 8:01:15 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Having the Conch shell is no longer recognized by Dem "Flies" as giving one authority to speak.)
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To: mdmathis6

So a plain reading of this verse suggests an early to mid 7 years reign of the AC beast group before the rapture. Perhaps when the 2 witnesses get killed and then are raised up...everybody else Christian, (dead in Christ first then the rest) goes up.


The “the Day of the Lord” is the seven year tribulation period. (The time of Jacob’s woes. A time to bring Israel to receive her Messiah, Jesus Christ. But must first suffer greatly because of her present, continued rejection.) The Lord’s return is His physical return to Earth, to destroy the ac and those who seek to destroy Israel at the Battle of Armageddon. This is in reference to Matthew 24. The Gospel Jesus preached was to the lost sheep of Israel. To the Jews first. Jesus came unto His own and His own received Him not. He then turned to the Gentiles and chose Paul to deliver that message to the church, to provoke the Jews to jealousy (Romans chapter 11)

It is through Paul, that the message of Grace is delivered, as well as the rapture of the church. The rapture is separate from the Physical return of Jesus. (1st Thessalonians 4:13-18)

The rapture proceeds the “Day of the Lord” and upon the completion of the 7 year tribulation, Jesus returns physically to the Earth to set up His Kingdom. At the Rapture we meet Him in the air. At that time we receive our immortal bodies, incorruptible and Eternal. 1st Corrinthians 15:51-56.


134 posted on 10/13/2021 8:18:04 AM PDT by patriot torch
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To: mdmathis6

No at that point it too late since the power grab will be completed

This needs to be stopped because it is an illegal power grab. You do NOT allow the Government to illegal enact unconstitutional powers because once you allow it, it now precedence for them to use the same new power in different ways.

Once you ceed authority to Government in an area, you never get it back


135 posted on 10/13/2021 8:20:53 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Rebelbase

Bookmark


136 posted on 10/13/2021 8:30:58 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: MNJohnnie

They are going to bring the economy to a halt and then...


137 posted on 10/13/2021 8:35:14 AM PDT by Bloodandgravy (Wantonness needs putting out, even more than a house on fire.)
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To: Scram1
14th Amend.?

Equal protection under the law?

99 employees...no problem.

101...the feds will crush your business and fine you out of existence.

138 posted on 10/13/2021 8:41:38 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Pollard

Perfect descriptive title. They are predators.


139 posted on 10/13/2021 8:43:35 AM PDT by 444Flyer (John 3, Revelation 20, Joshua 24:15, 1 Kings 18:16-39, Pick a side...)
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To: Pollard
The lion's roar paralyzes its prey in fear. Stealing the prey's ability to think, act or fight back. Much of the population have fallen for the devil's lies and have been already been taken captive by the enemy.


140 posted on 10/13/2021 8:54:15 AM PDT by 444Flyer (John 3, Revelation 20, Joshua 24:15, 1 Kings 18:16-39, Pick a side...)
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