Posted on 11/04/2021 7:31:44 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
WASHINGTON – Workers at larger businesses will have to get vaccinated for COVID-19 by Jan. 4, 2022, or face regular testing under new federal rules being released Thursday.
Workers who choose the testing option may have to bear the cost. They also will be required to wear a face mask on the job, beginning on Dec. 5.
The rules fill in the details for the vaccination requirement President Joe Biden announced in September for businesses with 100 or more employees.
The Labor Department is taking feedback over the next month on whether smaller workplaces should be included.
"COVID-19 continues to hold back our workforce and our economy – and it will continue to do so until more Americans are vaccinated," Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and Jeff Zients, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, wrote in an opinion piece for USA TODAY.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration requirement also applies to state and local government workers in 26 states, including teachers and school staff.
Twenty-one of those states have the option of writing their own workplace rules for public and private sector workers. But those rules can’t be weaker than what the federal government is requiring – and must be adopted in 30 days.
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False. Emergency Standards like this one are frequently slapped down by Courts.
It doesn’t mater that it is regulatory since it a question of who has authority in this field. Historically this has always been a State power. Bare Shelves Biden is trying to claim it is within the Feds power
I REALLY hope you are right. But going the OSHA route was very smart. Courts are very cautious about stepping into regulatory matters (if I remember right you are connected to law so your view is probably closer to the situation).
But from years of dealing with OSHA, and having our compliance folks say “There is no appeal”, I am pessimistic it will be able to be stopped.
There are some that do.
Flu shot mandates have been floated in the past, but most companies felt it wasn’t worth it.
Several healthcare related jobs have vax requirements, as do education.
Here is a good article explaining it
Some more lawsuits filed by Republican state attorneys generals and other business interests
Pay no attention to the little man in front of the curtain. The Great Con has spoken!
“They haven’t got a clue...”
Trouble with it is, plenty of folks who have the impulse to say, “Oh, Hell NO!” haven’t got much of a clue just how widespread that exact impulse is; there’s a sense of being isolated in their resistance; especially with so many being at home so much, instead of out and about running the typical weekly errands.
I think, if everyone would get really public with their personal rejection of this mandate crap, and do it immediately, there’d be, almost overnight, the visible emergence of an insurmountable tsunami of pushback that would quench this thing.
“OSHA rules are typically extra judicial and not reviewable, just like the EPA rules.”
Go read Rapanos v US and SWANNC v US.
Then tell me how executive rules aren’t reviewable.
The pushback of the vax mandate from Dec to Jan is an admission that it’s not an emergency. That could be an argument in anti-mandate lawsuits.
The courts are captured now.
I hope this plays out well, but hopium kills. Hope, but plan as if it is up to you
Good Point
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