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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,937 posts)
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 03:31 PM Oct 2021

Republicans gird for battle and businesses brace for details of Biden's new vaccine rule

President Biden’s planned vaccine requirement faces a number of tests in coming weeks, as at least two dozen Republican-controlled states prepare legal challenges, setting up a clash between the federal government and local officials that could ultimately determine the fate of the rule.

The Labor Department has moved slowly in designing the rule, which White House officials said will require companies with more than 100 employees to institute mandatory vaccination or testing protocols for their staffs.

Top administration officials have been working carefully to ensure the proposal is ironclad, and some have been heartened to see anecdotal evidence that companies and local governments implementing vaccine requirements have seen large-scale cooperation.

As the White House pushes ahead, Biden is traveling to Chicago on Thursday and is expected to make remarks about the importance of vaccine requirements. The Biden administration hasn’t said when it will formally release the policy, which will affect more than 80 million Americans, something the White House believes is necessary to finally slow the coronavirus’s spread.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-gird-for-battle-and-businesses-brace-for-details-of-bidens-new-vaccine-rule/ar-AAP9Gwk

Meanwhile the GOP continues to kill itself and infect others.

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Republicans gird for battle and businesses brace for details of Biden's new vaccine rule (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2021 OP
I still don't understand why it only applies to larger companies and not all employers MichMan Oct 2021 #1
I think it has to do with how OSHA's jurisdiction is defined in statute. lagomorph777 Oct 2021 #2
Companies smaller than 99 employees are exempt from OSHA rules ? MichMan Oct 2021 #3
I don't know for sure - maybe certain rules? lagomorph777 Oct 2021 #4

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
2. I think it has to do with how OSHA's jurisdiction is defined in statute.
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 04:34 PM
Oct 2021

President Biden's legal team analyzed the law to find every place he could have jurisdiction with an executive order.

MichMan

(11,912 posts)
3. Companies smaller than 99 employees are exempt from OSHA rules ?
Tue Oct 5, 2021, 04:40 PM
Oct 2021

Didn't know that. I worked for a couple in manufacturing and thought they were

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