Posted on 10/13/2021 8:01:16 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
American Airlines and Southwest Airlines will continue to require COVID-19 vaccinations for their employees as required by the Biden administration, defying Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) executive order banning all vaccine mandates in the state.
The Texas-based carriers recently announced that all employees must get the shots to comply with the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for federal contractors. Both airlines have large contracts with the U.S. government to transport supplies and federal officials.
Abbott signed an executive order Monday that prohibits any entity with 100 or more employees from implementing COVID-19 vaccine mandates, directly challenging the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement. The airlines said Tuesday that they will comply with the federal government rule over Abbott’s executive order.
“We are reviewing the executive order issued by Gov. Abbott, but we believe the federal vaccine mandate supersedes any conflicting state laws, and this does not change anything for American,” an American Airlines spokesperson said in a statement.
Southwest Airlines took the same stance Tuesday, stating that “federal action supersedes any state mandate or law.”
Nearly every major airline announced a vaccine mandate after the Biden administration said that all government contractors must be vaccinated by Dec. 8. Delta Air Lines, the only major carrier without a vaccine requirement, imposes a $200 monthly surcharge on unvaccinated workers.
Abbott’s new executive order is a reversal from his previous stance that the government shouldn’t tell private businesses how to handle vaccine mandates.
Renae Eze, Abbott's press secretary, said in a statement that the Biden administration rule "left employers with the unfair choice of either violating federal regulations or losing their valued employees."
"The Governor’s executive order will help protect Texans from having to make that choice,” she said.
Texas should enact legislation permitting individual workers, who have been fired for this purpose, to sue. Define the Texas court that will have exclusive jurisdiction and quantify the damages at $500,000 per employee so injured. Require expedited handling so the verdict will finalize 25 calendar days after notice of service.
*cough*
CONSTITUTION (10th Amendment): “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
IT'S SPREADING!
Fine them?? LOL What is this, elementary school library? Render their aircraft unairworthy in a gentle way or a forceful way.
Just sayin', Ya'll
Executive Orders 14042 and 14043. Not a law, per se, so yes the poster was correct but quite ignorant to say it was merely a press release. They are executive orders.
Federal law trumps state law... Unless it’s immigration or other leftist causes.
So name the law the Congress passed legalizing manditory vaccines?
This just enrages me.
THERE IS NO FEDERAL MANDATE!
It's just (so far) Biden running his mouth.
Odd that EO 14043 specifically names the Delta Variant, which seems to dominantly affect those who have been "vaxxed".
I bet he even smelled nice. Nice clean shave no wrinkles, he must have just started to farm. Does he know the difference in corn or the difference between a string bale or a wired one? He doesn’t look like he cleaned the cow gutter yet. LOL!!!! I look like a farmer, I haven’t shaved in 3 days and I’m retired with a tan. He must be one of those corporation farmers with shinny shoes and niffy hair cut.Then again he may have been a John Deere rep. ????
Unlikely for now. This is a Federal vs. State jurisdiction issue. It will end up being litigated.
Yep! And the Feds will.
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