Coming out in his speech at 5pm EDT. As a preview... All large employers with 100 or more employees in the U.S. will be required to have their employees vaccinated. Biden to announce new vaccine mandates for federal workers and large employers https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/09/politics/joe-biden-covid-speech/index.html
The part of the government requiring private employers of 100 or more employees to have everyone vaccinated seems troublesome... have to see the legal justification for that one...
Six months from now...you will be required to be vaccinated...to go to any grocery store. First make it optional, then slowly mandate it across various levels....so the dumb masses will get desensitized, and unconfrontational, about it. And the chess game of control, and private agendas, are slowly unfolding as they're winning and gaining. A year from now, they will have near full control. Just like a sci-fi movie, and political, mystery, thriller. What will this pandemic, and society, and world look like.....two years from now, five years from now, a decade from now, two decades from now, 50 years from now, a century from now, two centuries from now, a millenia from now, That's a scary thought to fathom. I have a feeling it will be different, for the worse. Though some may say, blindly, ignorantly, it's fantastic.
Failure to comply will cost $14,000 per violation. And yes, the U.S. Labor department has the right to set workplace rules like this. There are other similar ones involving fines for non-compliance by the company.
We all know about DoL setting workplace safety rules and benefits such as FMLA.... However those are regulations or laws passed by Congress or through the APA and administrative rule making. A federal agency mandating to private employers based on 100 or more employees to force a vaccine requirement or weekly testing seems like an administrative overreach into the private sector. Vaccines are not required by law. Vaccines are not even required to work under the law, they are choices made by employers as policy which they have the right to do. If an employer of 150 people wants to require a vaccine to come back to work or else you either will have to work remote or undergo some other protocols that is their choice. Now the federal government wants to tell private businesses that MUST mandate vaccines? AND doing it by emergency order? If I have 103 employees I will convert 3 to independent contractors or fire 3. Will the DoL go after the NBA ... the NFL? What about Amazon or Google? Dont think that is right... just because you are 100% pro vaccine does not mean you can give the government that kind of right to mandate in private employers... legally this does not seem right. Vaccines are not authorized or mandated by law, they are still a preference. Amazon has a right to deal with non vaccinated people the way it wants and now you are going to fine it money if it does not mandate 100% vaccinations with no exceptions? Same bullshit as DeSantis... will not fly.
We will see what the Courts say.... I suggest you reference the earlier U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1905 allowing vaccination mandates. Plus all the court decisions upholding Labor Department rules for worker safety which were instituted by the Executive branch and not Congress.
So I don’t know if vaccine mandates for workplaces is what the legal stance they may be taking actually is. Rather weekly testing can be halted on vaccinated workers. Testing is certainly a lawful workplace regulation. It’s sort of a back door mandate. Courts have upheld “coercion” in the past as constitutional. It’s actually a very clever legal strategy.
New Biden plan could mandate COVID shots or tests for two-thirds of U.S. workers https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-deliver-six-step-plan-covid-19-pandemic-2021-09-09/ President Joe Biden will require all federal employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and the U.S. Department of Labor will issue a rule requiring businesses with more than 100 employees to have their workers vaccinated or tested weekly, officials said on Thursday. The new measures, which Biden was due to lay out in remarks at 5 p.m. ET (2100 GMT), cover about two-thirds of all U.S. employees, part of a broader, more aggressive attempt to get Americans vaccinated amid a surge in COVID-19 cases from the fast-spreading Delta variant. Under Biden's plan, the administration would also require vaccinations for more than 17 million healthcare workers at hospitals and other institutions that participate in Medicare and Medicaid social programs for poor, disabled and older Americans, senior administration officials said. The new vaccination requirements cover about 100 million workers, or about two-thirds of all workers in the United States, officials said. In addition, the administration plans to ramp up testing capacity for the virus. Biden will use his authority under the Defense Production Act to spur industry to accelerate production of the tests, and big retailers including Walmart(WMT.N), Amazon.com and Kroger(KR.N) will sell the tests at cost for the next three months to make them more affordable, the officials said. The full recovery of the U.S economy depends on blunting the spread of the virus, which is a key health and political goal of the president, a Democrat who took entered the White House in January. "Our overarching objective here is to reduce the number of unvaccinated Americans," White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, noting that 80 million still have not been vaccinated. "We want to reduce that number, decrease hospitalizations and deaths and allow our children to go to school safely." Federal workers unions suggested on Thursday they would accept the vaccine mandate. Federal workers will have a 75-day “ramp up” period to get vaccinated, and then be referred to human resources for counseling and possible disciplinary action, Psaki said. Workers who are not exempt from vaccination and refuse to get a vaccine may be terminated. 53% VACCINATED Despite a full-throttled campaign by the Biden administration urging all eligible Americans to get the free vaccines, just over 53% of Americans are fully vaccinated, according to date from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The disease has killed more than 654,000 people in the United States, and deaths and hospitalizations have been rising sharply as the easily transmissible Delta variant of the virus spreads. In July, Biden said federal workers had to get vaccinated or face regular COVID-19 testing and other restrictions like mandatory face covering at workplaces. Biden's speech also will cover mask-wearing, protecting the economic recovery from the pandemic-induced recession, and improving healthcare for people infected with COVID-19, Psaki said. "He's going to speak directly to vaccinated people and their frustration, and he wants them to hear how we're going to build on what we've done to date to get the virus under control and to return to some version of normal in this country," she said. The White House COVID recovery plans, and the projected U.S. economic rebound were based on the vast majority of eligible Americans being vaccinated this year. But the public health issue has become politicized, with a vocal minority refusing the shots and mask mandates, arguing that they are an infringement on their individual rights. COUNTRY 'STILL IN PANDEMIC MODE' The spread of the Delta variant has raised concerns as children head back to school, while also rattling investors, upending company return-to-office plans, and tamping down hiring. With 160,000 new infections a day, the country is "still in pandemic mode ... That's not even modestly good control," Biden's chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told Axios. "You've got to get well below 10,000 (a day) before you start feeling comfortable," Fauci added. The White House plans to offer booster shots providing additional protection to those who are fully vaccinated. That goes against arguments from the World Health Organization and other advocates that say with global vaccine supplies limited, rich countries should pause booster programs until more people worldwide are inoculated. But with Delta causing more symptomatic breakthrough infections among fully inoculated individuals, most vaccinated Americans want a booster, a recent Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll found. Abbott Laboratories (ABT.N) and other test manufacturers are trying to boost production as cases soar, after having scaled back in recent months. CVS Health Corp (CVS.N) recently imposed limits on the number of at-home tests customers can buy. The White House said the federal government cannot mandate vaccines nationwide, but it has encouraged school districts, businesses and other entities to require shots.