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Several Big Business Groups Express Displeasure With Biden’s Private Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
The Epoch Times ^ | November 4, 2021 | Zachary Stieber

Posted on 11/04/2021 8:41:13 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan

Several large business groups on Thursday said President Joe Biden’s latest COVID-19 vaccine requirement was poorly planned and would burden employers during the holiday season.

The mandate, announced by Biden in September, was released to the public for the first time on Nov. 4.

It requires employers with 100 or more employees—and, perhaps, smaller businesses—to secure proof of COVID-19 vaccination from workers or force them to get tested for the disease on a regular basis, at least once a week.

David French, a senior vice president at the National Retail Foundation, said retailers have taken “extraordinary measures” during the pandemic to protect employees and customers, including encouraging and mandating vaccination.

“Since the president’s announcement of the vaccine mandate for private industry, the seven-day average number of cases in the United States has plummeted by more than half. Nevertheless, the Biden administration has chosen to declare an ‘emergency’ and impose burdensome new requirements on retailers during the crucial holiday shopping season,” he said in a statement.

Michael Hanson, a senior executive vice president at the Retail Industry Leaders Association, said the deadline of Jan. 4, 2022, was disappointing because planning and implementation would fall “during the busiest part of the shopping season.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: biden; collapse; covid; mandate
If the Brandon Administration genuinely wanted to collapse the economy, what would they do differently?

The only other explanation is insanity.

1 posted on 11/04/2021 8:41:13 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Destroy the economy, while lining their pockets with pharmaceutical company profits. This is the Dim way. This is what it is all about.


2 posted on 11/04/2021 8:47:27 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
It's not just the "big" businesses that will be hit with this evil mandate...it's basically ALL businesses soon:

JUST IN - OSHA will consider expanding the vaccine mandate to smaller businesses with fewer than 100 employees during a 30-day comment period, according to the U.S. Labor Department

Don't want, or don't need, the medicine your employer is mandating you take as a condition of your employment? It's your "choice," to work there, just go find another job somewhere else (we are told by the supporters).

Well...if EVERY employer is forced to mandate this injection, that effectively leaves people with NO choice between work/earning a living and mandated medicine.

3 posted on 11/04/2021 8:48:18 PM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

It’s an idiotic EXECUTIVE ORDER!!! It’s NOT LAW...Don’t follow it!


4 posted on 11/04/2021 8:51:45 PM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned.)
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To: rxsid

Never mind the increased overhead that the mandate forces businesses to pay for.

What happens when 10% to 20% of their most valuable employees QUIT rather than take the clot-shot?

Just remember:
It’s not a vaccine
It’s not safe
It’s not effective.


5 posted on 11/04/2021 8:55:08 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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To: goodnesswins
It’s an idiotic EXECUTIVE ORDER!!! It’s NOT LAW...Don’t follow it!

No. It is not an "executive order." It's an OSHA regulation adopted pursuant to the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. In that respect, it is a most assuredly "law," in the way that any federal regulation has the force of law. It is not "law" in the way that congressionally-enacted statute is "law," but the OSHA ETS has the force of law nevertheless. That's how our federal system has worked for decades.

All that said, the ETS is subject to judicial review. And if the ultimate reviewing court determines that the ETS exceeds OSHA's authority under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, then the ETS will be vacated accordingly. Unless and until that happens, however, the ETS is indeed "law."

6 posted on 11/04/2021 9:02:51 PM PDT by DSH
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Yeah, now lefty businessmen are finding out what we tried to
tell them all along. Communists are not business friendly.

Who knew?

I mean, this wasn’t a well kept secret in the last century.


7 posted on 11/04/2021 9:17:07 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Democrats, fixing things that haven't been broken, so they don't work, for over 197 years.)
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To: DSH

Where did the “regulation” come from?


8 posted on 11/04/2021 9:46:19 PM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Meanwhile, after this stern statement is released, these business leaders’ HR departments are salivating about the extra power and control these mandates seem to give them.


9 posted on 11/04/2021 11:57:53 PM PDT by ReaganGeneration2 (Widespread belief in asymptomatic spread of a low-risk virus hastened the end of the West by 100 yrs)
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