Just a list of those jobs and agencies that are above the jab. Besides Postal Workers & Congress The latest. Trucking industry hails 'huge victory' after Labor Secretary says most truckers will be exempt from Biden's vaccine mandate More at https://news.yahoo.com/trucking-industry-hails-huge-victory-151814639.html
Wait, there’s more. Flight attendants, ground crew, and pilots are apparently to receive substantial additional compensation to work full time during the upcoming holidays. I do mean substantial, but I don’t want to disclose specifics as I don’t know if this information is to be intended to be public yet. I presume the US Government is ultimately behind funding this “Holiday season” pay. As for truckers, a bunch of early retirements have probably been forestalled by this mandate exception, avoiding further deterioration of our supply chain situation during the holidays. For now, at least, I will leave a couple of “Morals to this story” to be left unsaid.
No more excuses for them not to get back to work and then wait for many hours in those long lines "without" pay ? I'm not complaining. Thanks to the truckers (Canada) putting pressure that they need more time to be vaccinated...it helped a lot for the U.S. to open up the borders for non-essential travel for others like me that want to cross the border back into the U.S. by land. I'm fully vaccinated and I haven't seen my home in the Chicago area (Evanston) since February of 2020. In contrast, usually I spend most of my holidays there for mini-reunions with family there from Kentucky, South Dakota, and Illinois about 4 - 5 times per year at my home in Evanston. https://www.trucknews.com/transport...k-drivers-to-face-vaccine-mandate/1003154086/ I've gotten tired of looking at real-time security footage of my home (outside / inside). wrbtrader
Wouldnt think a trucker stuck in their own truck for hours on end alone would have trouble getting an exemption. But it does open the door for many other occupations to make the same claim that they do not work in teams or in groups and are individual so social distancing is part of the job more than 75% of the time....
For some, not everyone, there’s millions of jobs where people work isolated in the field. There’s no “emergency” for these people to be vaccinated. No threat to the workplace. Yet they are subject to this blatant overreach by the Biden administration. Threatened with their livelihoods and the ability to provide for their families if they don’t comply, regardless of their freedoms. Please explain how postal workers or congress can get a pass
That is the rub there.. This is the same argument I made when NFL said all coaches and staff had to be vaccinated or fired but players were exempt... NFL changed their tune real fast after the first firing blew up in their face. Now truckers, postal workers and Congress is exempt but all other federal workers must get vaccinated. the NFL is a private entity so they have a lot more leeway for haphazard applications of rules but federal government is subject to higher authorities and granting random exemptions punches a lot of holes in their mandate. Also if a worker is virtual and performing well and does not want to get vaccinated but the employer asks people to come back into the office, but not everyone is forced to come back, they will have a lot of issues trying to fire that one employee who does not want to get vaccinated. If the employer is not the one making the requirment but blaming the federal government then it is quite different from the employer coming up with their own rules that the employee has to follow. It is a subtle difference but one important enought to shift the blame on who is doing the forcing. All of these are examples of holes in the attempt of the government to enfroce the mandate on both private and public entities.
They'll fine-tune the exempt status for those that work at home for companies that have over 100 employees so that those types of employees must be vaccinated when they return back to the office or must be covid-tested / wear face mask. I only say the above because I know someone in South Dakota that has been working from home for Lantis Enterprises managing employee payrolls...its a large company of a few thousand employees. Her company told her not to worry about the vaccine mandate because she's now listed as a "permanent at home" employee. Thus, large companies have a way to exempt those types of at-home employees from the rest of their workforce that works in person at the company building. P.S. No workplace Christmas party for those types of employees. wrbtrader