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Workers face Jan. 4 deadline as Biden rolls out COVID-19 vaccine rules for large businesses
Yahoo! News ^ | 4/11/21 | Maureen Groppe

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigbusiness; covid; democrats; failure; mandate; osha; vaccines
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At least he changed the subject from Afghanistan./s
1 posted on 11/04/2021 7:31:44 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

The establishment lost in Afghanistan so they brought the war home and are now attacking Americans.


2 posted on 11/04/2021 7:34:03 AM PDT by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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To: Eleutheria5

FJB!


3 posted on 11/04/2021 7:34:41 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Eleutheria5

I get tested at Walgreens for free. These guys might have to pay? Sounds like a threat to me.


4 posted on 11/04/2021 7:34:42 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Eleutheria5

Covid is NOT “holding back” the workforce.

GOVERNMENT is.


5 posted on 11/04/2021 7:35:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Eleutheria5
These people live in a fantasy world in which the vaccines actually work.

If this is allowed to stand, then there's no reason for the US to have a court system or a Congress anymore. We are a dictatorship.
6 posted on 11/04/2021 7:36:40 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Eleutheria5

All democrat taliban party voters are the enemy, folks.


7 posted on 11/04/2021 7:36:57 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Eleutheria5

The FDA approved (EUA) a t-cell blood test that shows if you have the immunity for a period of 6 months. Why wont they accept that test? the answer is, they want to make it as inconvient as possible to try and force people to get the clot shot.


8 posted on 11/04/2021 7:37:17 AM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Where are the lawsuits?


9 posted on 11/04/2021 7:37:17 AM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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To: WMarshal
Any elected body that votes ...

is de facto a jury.

https://fija.org/library-and-resources/library/jury-nullification-faq/what-is-jury-nullification.html

10 posted on 11/04/2021 7:38:24 AM PDT by knarf (?<p>Little kids grow up to be adults that get into powerful positions and act out their thoughts.<pg)
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To: Eleutheria5
100 employees is a large business? News to me.

What is a small business?

11 posted on 11/04/2021 7:38:42 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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12 posted on 11/04/2021 7:39:21 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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What kind of totalitarian puts himself between a human being and his/her doctor?


13 posted on 11/04/2021 7:39:54 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ("Fear is a reaction; Courage is a decision." Winston Churchill)
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“Workers who choose the testing option may have to bear the cost.”

Well, then we may have to sue for discriminatory treatment based on a pre-existing health condition...


14 posted on 11/04/2021 7:41:05 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Antoninus
We are a dictatorship.

I agree, and while this might be considered hyperbole or hysterical, I believe the signs are everywhere that the executive branch is out of control.

If Congress and the states don't stand up to this, this nation is gone. This is the biggest trial balloon they've ever floated, and if it stands, they'll stop at nothing to destroy everything else.

15 posted on 11/04/2021 7:41:18 AM PDT by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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Where are the lawsuits?

There have been A LOT, almost all of which have lost. Some were appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, but so far the Supreme Court has refused to take any of the appeals to trial.

There was one case where the judge ordered the Biden admin to not discipline some federal workers, but last I heard the Biden was ignoring her order, and the press has blacked any coverage of it out ever since.

Welcome to medical tyranny, it appears. The only thing that got this delay was some labor unions especially the truckers saying they would refuse to comply which would crush the economy right before Christmas. So workers revolting is all that’s left.

16 posted on 11/04/2021 7:44:47 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Without treasonous Republicans, the Democrats have zero power.)
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To: Eleutheria5

They announce this the day after the election coverage to change the narrative and also to not impact the election.


17 posted on 11/04/2021 7:45:12 AM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders,)
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To: Eleutheria5
And when they fire you for refusing the experimental "vaccine", the government will refuse to pay you unemployment because you aren't "vaccinated".

But Trump and the republicans are the tyrants, right?

18 posted on 11/04/2021 7:45:40 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: rarestia
and while this might be considered hyperbole or hysterical

It's absolutely neither of those things. Think about what's going on here. A federal agency, under direct orders from the president of the US, has issued a diktat that workers must receive a chemical injection to qualify for work.

If this stands, we have a dictatorship, not a republic.
19 posted on 11/04/2021 7:45:56 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Golden Eagle

It is interesting the SCOTUS is poised to allow expanded gun rights, but cut out health rights.


20 posted on 11/04/2021 7:48:25 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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