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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: SaveFerris

I’m ready to live under a bridge or in a death camp.
Don’t even care anymore!

Biden will burn in hell for eternity for this and everything else he’s done in his evil wretched life.


141 posted on 10/13/2021 8:55:55 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: patriot torch

Okay but we were still speaking of the plain talk of 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2...that is if the “restrainer” that is removed that Paul speaks of is the Church living and those dead in Christ, and not some other entity or work of the Holy Spirit.


142 posted on 10/13/2021 8:56:05 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: Blood of Tyrants

An obvious attempt to further divide the people, nothing more.


143 posted on 10/13/2021 9:34:49 AM PDT by MRadtke (Light a candle or curse the darkness?)
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To: SaveFerris

Do what I have been doing since 2000. Make your money online. Fuck all these mandates. Cant be fired, Cant be told anything by anyone.


144 posted on 10/13/2021 11:14:37 AM PDT by cdnerds (Vapingunderground)
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To: eartick

Perhaps. But the lack of a proper budget the past twenty years and increasing diktats the past ten and, especially Obama/Biden decrees amps things up.


145 posted on 10/13/2021 11:51:56 AM PDT by dodger
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To: Varsity Flight

Very clever~I have emoji envy!


146 posted on 10/13/2021 12:14:45 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (It's not the job of the unvaxxed to protect the vaxxed. That's the job of the "vaccine.")
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To: hsmomx3

“I wish that all workers who work from home and have NO direct contact with employees or customers would be exempt from this.”

Well, ya see... trying to rope in employees that have no contact with anybody in the office just may be the leak that sinks this ship, ‘cuz there’s no sound rationale for imposing that requirement.


147 posted on 10/13/2021 1:27:27 PM PDT by HKMk23 (The right of freedom of religion shall not be derogated even if the life of the nation is at stake.)
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To: patriot torch

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?

An excellent verse


148 posted on 10/13/2021 2:20:55 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lots, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Sounds like we both need extra prayers my brother in Jesus Christ.

A lot of people will these days.

🛐🛐🛐🛐🛐🛐🛐 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Need the Lord to open the door 🚪🚪🚪🚪🚪.


149 posted on 10/13/2021 4:29:32 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lots, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Westbrook

Darn phone

That was supposed to be

“Awesome!!” - oops on question marks

And it should say “You’re welcome”.

sigh...............


150 posted on 10/14/2021 2:11:40 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lots, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Westbrook

You may enjoy this one, too. FWIW

It starts off kinda slow-medium. Mid-way.....just gets even more awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIbVn67tjCA

Awesome brother on guitar, too

A couple more of my all-time favorites:

I really love this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viw5l9BQgLQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpq-QGvu-Qk


151 posted on 10/14/2021 2:27:57 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lots, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: HypatiaTaught

Not necessarily, unfortunately.

Additionally the company itself may even say they want you to be able to physically attend a meeting whether or not they physically want to meet you.


152 posted on 10/14/2021 2:56:12 AM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
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To: MNJohnnie

I find it hard to believe that ANYONE...even the most died in the wool leftie...could look at that KOOK PSAKI...and agree with her, or like her, or find her honest or comforting.

The woman is a CREEP. And I mean that in the worst way. YECH.


153 posted on 10/14/2021 3:14:03 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Freedom of Speech Wins

If that is the case, I would test for the stupid virus.

Never, NEVER will I get this joke of a “vaccine”.

Let’s Go Brandon.


154 posted on 10/14/2021 4:47:15 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught (Sounds like a conspiracy theory? Wait 6 months and it will be truth.)
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To: firebrand

The symptoms aren’t the only way it spreads. Mere breathing does, too.


155 posted on 10/15/2021 5:55:38 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: EBH; Daffynition; cyn; JAG 5000; Phinneous; SJackson; null and void; rktman
There just might be a whole bunch of small start-up companies in our future. The workers walking away from mandates or fired because of mandates might just create a whole new set of American made industries*.

Lemonade from lemons.

Yankee Ingenuity. It's the American way. That's why the dark side can't curse the American People, try as it might.

The Way of the Patriarchs goes up. Literally. Highway GO, check that link.

"Those are my peeps all right, firmly planted on the Sunny Side!" ~ God,

with the wry smile that lights up a room (it'd be like looking directly at the Sun)

Simple concepts. It goes a long way in explaining why the America-deniers are churning out their daily demoralization reports as if they are the ones shining the light. It's the spirit of Amalek, breaking eggs.

The yolks on *them*.

Johnny Cash - Keep On the Sunny Side

"We're bustin' outta here!" ~ Moses

The man-made too-big-to-fail establishments failed to deliver which of course God knew because it was totally predictable. As if God would be stuck without them. Eh, meanwhile the DAVID seeds are located on the lowly snack aisles. "An American Original"

Very high in sodium, no less. ;)

Luv it. The God of Abraham IS the Living God. There's no competition! Volks are going to learn to respect:

Polka chicken dance (Oktoberfest) (Drink.)

Here's a detail that'll probably [continue to] annoy the pour souls who might pity me for my foolish posts:

In Hebrew that dance is called the bird dance, lit. the dance of the birds [ריקוד הציפורים].

Adds up to 761, same as the last words of the Torah:

Deu 34.12. And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great and awesome deeds which Moses performed in the sight of all Israel [לעיני כל־ישראל]:

Just thought I'd mention it.

After all, the next song in the queue was another of the same, beginning with a Mädchen named Hannah. "Guten Tag... ich heiße Hannah, here to teach you... the chicken dance":

"First, gather a group of friends and join them in a circle. When the music starts -- and you can't miss it -- make little beaks out of your hands..."

There's more than one way to bring down the House.

761 (the verses of the Megillah in re-verse) first shows up as the last part of

Genesis 1:4

וירא אלהים את האור כי טוב ויבדל אלהים בין האור ובין החשך

And God saw the light, that it was good; and divided God the light from the darkness:

The sum of the entire verse = 1776.

See? Full circle in real time. I'm never disappointed. I'll stay on this road.

(Numbers -- aka Bamidbar, "In the Wilderness.")

*The last verse of the Tanakh:

1 Chron 36.23. Thus said Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has the Lord God of heaven given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in JerUSAlem, which is in Judah; Whoever is among you of all his people, the Lord his God be with him, and let him go up:

The Peanut Galley sez, that's JerUSAlem, in J-UDA-H.

Perfect place, because on the keyboard the D is next to the S and who hasn't made that "typo". On the Hebrew keyboard layout, the Latin D is the gimel and the S is the dalet.

Thus right to left, just as the sages say: the gimel is chasing after the dalet in order to give him charity.

And it ain't even lunch yet.

We' gonna do what they say can't be done..

156 posted on 10/15/2021 8:06:42 AM PDT by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity-- because the Son of David begins with Mars.)
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To: HypatiaTaught
So if I completely work remotely, I am exempt because there are no other co-workers.

Common sense. My guess, since the mandate defies common sense, not if you're working remotely for a company with 100+ employees.

157 posted on 10/15/2021 8:29:47 AM PDT by SJackson (blow in a dog’s face he gets mad, on a car ride he sticks his head out the window)
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To: SJackson

Well, I will Test then.

Never taking the jab.


158 posted on 10/15/2021 8:31:19 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught (Sounds like a conspiracy theory? Wait 6 months and it will be truth.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Might see you under the bridge...I won’t be going to camp.


159 posted on 10/15/2021 8:31:52 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: MNJohnnie
The EUA vaccines require a patient informed consent form to be signed. United States case law says that any consent given under duress is not consent under the law.

It seems to me that forcing someone to get a vaccine or lose their jobs, their pay, and their family security, is the utmost coercive duress possible on someone.

Nobody can give a legally binding consent under these conditions, and for that reason these mandates to take the EUA vaccines should be challenged in court.

Here is the relevant section of US Code 21 U.S. Code § 360bbb–3 - Authorization for medical products for use in emergencies:

Note that this section is for Emergency Use Authorization and includes informed consent and the option to refuse.

I underlined the part about "consequences, if any, of refusing administration of the product" because I believe this pertains to the medical "consequences" of not taking the drug. It does NOT give permission to businesses to place "consequences" on employees who don't take the drug. The former gives the recipient the choice, the latter is coercive consent under duress.

-PJ

160 posted on 10/15/2021 8:35:04 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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