Posted on 10/19/2021 5:55:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
According to a new poll, nearly nine in 10 employers say some of their employees will quit when resident Biden’s federal vaccine mandate goes into effect.
This ominous news comes at a time when employers are already extremely short-staffed and the U.S. economy has 11 million job openings, an all-time record.
This past weekend, I experienced a labor shortage when I had to drive to three Dunkin Donut shops just to get a cup of coffee. The first two I stopped at were “closed” due to a lack of employees. The third location’s drive-thru was open, but it did not have enough employees for indoor dining/ordering.
Unfortunately, as most Americans can attest to, the labor shortage is across the board, and it is causing major problems.
From truck drivers to teachers to health care workers, employers are finding it more difficult than ever to fill job vacancies.
And Biden’s looming federal vaccine mandate will only make matters much worse.
According to the recent poll, conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 90 percent of employers said it will be “somewhat or very challenging” to administer Biden’s nationwide vaccine mandate.
What’s more, 85 percent of employers said the vaccine mandate will make it more difficult to retain employees. A whopping 78 percent said the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate will make it more difficult to attract and hire new employees. And 82 percent said the vaccine requirement will make it more difficult to maintain morale and engagement.
Even worse, 72 percent of employers said the national vaccine mandate will make it more difficult to maintain regular business operations.
As Trent Burner, SHRM’s vice president of research, succinctly stated, “Organizations are concerned about the challenges to implementing the new vaccine mandate during a time when there is a talent shortage in many industries.”
Among workers, the antipathy to Biden’s vaccine mandate is also a major reason for concern.
Per the SHRM survey, 52 percent of unvaccinated employees said they will quit if their employer implements a vaccine mandate.
Almost half of all manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation, and warehouse workers are opposed to the federal government’s heavy-handed mandate.
Moreover, 40 percent of all workers are against the vaccine mandate.
While Biden’s national requirement is likely to cause major economic turmoil when the rule is finalized, local and statewide vaccine mandates are already causing unprecedented disruptions.
For example, several states are struggling with severe shortages of health care workers due to recent vaccine mandates. Many states and localities are also in desperate need of police officers because of vaccine mandates.
For me, the fundamental problem with vaccine mandates is they are a one-size-fits-all “solution” that is not tailored to consider unique circumstances.
For instance, vaccine mandates do not make exemptions for those who have natural immunity to COVID-19, which studies show offers more robust and longer-lasting protection than any of the vaccines currently available.
Furthermore, women who are pregnant, people with certain auto-immune diseases, and the young and healthy also have legitimate reasons for exceptions to the mandate.
However, for one reason or another, those pushing vaccine mandates remain steadfast in their all-or-nothing approach.
Without a doubt, federal, state, and local vaccine mandates will do more harm than good. As of this writing, more than 57 percent of Americans have been fully vaccinated. Incredibly, 68 percent of Americans over the age of 18 have been fully vaccinated. When one considers all who have had COVID-19, and therefore have natural immunity, we are well past herd immunity.
In other words, in the United States, COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are plummeting, yet those pushing vaccine mandates are acting as if we are still in the throes of the pandemic.
That makes me wonder if vaccine mandates are not actually about protecting the public, but more about politicians and bureaucrats exerting their newfound pandemic powers.
That makes sense and is quite possible.
CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health.
Maine, for instance, removed their religious exemption to mandated vaccinations back in 2019.
Interesting timing.
The vaccine mandates and firings are not about protecting the public, but about identifying dissenters and shooting them down, and increasing the power politicians and bureaucrats have over the people.
It is, and always has been, about Control.
OH NOES! IF they do that it will prove buttplug was right about the supply chain being messed up because of the unpatriotic unvaxxed miscreants who are lower than the lowest in the caste system. So, just a question pete, have the twins been vaxxed yet?
Then 90% of employers shouldn’t mandate it.... pretty F’n simple solution.
Yeah. It’s “quite possible” alright. When “non essential” business was shut down, it was “quite possible” that the feds wanted them out of business. But a lot of them came back. What a bother. So now to shut ‘em down with the mandate.
Like I told my kids...”why is a guitar store considered non essential? The owner and his employees don’t count? The people that make a living playing music and needing supplies from that store don’t count”? Total BS!
Vaccine Mandates are the latest RANSOMWARE.
Make sure you have good backups!
Employees will immediately take their sick/vacay time, and then NOT quit - employer will have to fire.
My son-in-law was notified yesterday he must be vaccinated by January 31, 2022. He immediately started the process to find a new job. He has already had covid, which he got at his Church while wearing his mask of obedience.
I am pro-business, but I am even more pro-freedom. I don’t give a damn what happens to businesses at this point. Businesses are owned by people. They are not just a personless legal entity. If business owners don’t care about basic freedoms, then I do not care if their businesses suffer or fail.
Quit? No, you will have to fire us.
I won’t quit but I am fully prepared to be fired.
People don’t like to be pushed around.
I know I’m sick and tired of it.
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I do almost all my internet stuff on this-here Kindle. My pcs are for important stuff like gaming.
I guess since I am sixth generation American, I object to mandates and will not abide. The more they push them, the more I resist.
I didn't know about Maine (I should because I live in Maine lol), but I know for a fact that New York state removed their religious exemption for mandated vaccinations in October 2019 using a measles outbreak as the stated reason.
Wow, more interesting timing! Must just be some wild coincidence that it would come into play for a virus that would show up on the world scene about 60 days later.
Given the drop in cases, their arguments get more and more desperate. As of October 17th total U.S. cases dropped like a boulder in the ocean to less than 17,000 cases, down from 192,000 on September 1st. That’s the data: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases
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