Posted on 02/12/2022 8:39:53 PM PST by SeekAndFind
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would mandate that all businesses require their employees and independent contractors to receive the COVID vaccine under legislation announced Friday by Democrat state lawmakers that was immediately criticized by Republicans as government overreach.
New employees would have to get at least one dose by the time they start work and the second dose within 45 days of being on the job. Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks introduced her bill months after delaying an original proposal last fall. The previous version would have allowed workers to submit to weekly testing as an alternative to getting vaccinated, but that is not an option in her new proposal.
Vaccines mandates are highly controversial and there have been many rallies at the state Capitol in Sacramento opposing such requirements. Wicks and other supporters said the mandate is needed even as California moves to ease other requirements and anticipates moving into a new “endemic” phase.
“That’s fundamentally what this bill is about,” she said. “Getting back to some sense of normalcy so we can go on with our lives, and we don’t have these constant interruptions and outbreaks and all these things that we’ve been experiencing for so long.”
The mandate would stay in place unless the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decides that COVID-19 vaccinations are no longer needed.
The bill would require state health and occupational safety officials to advise employers on what qualifies as a medical condition, disability, religious belief and valid vaccination status. Businesses that didn’t comply would face penalties that have yet to be determined.
Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher — “Telling people they can’t feed their family unless they get the vaccine is just wrong. I trust Californians enough to treat them like adults who can make their own health care decisions. It’s unfortunate that a few Democrats in the Legislature don’t.”
Gavin Newsom last year ordered all of the state’s roughly 2.2 million health care workers to to be vaccinated or lose their jobs. He also required state workers and teachers to either get vaccinated or submit to weekly testing. And California’s school children by summer must be vaccinated to attend in-person classes.
Wicks’ proposal is just the latest of several far-reaching measures introduced by Democratic state lawmakers this year. Among others, Sen. Scott Wiener would allow children 12 and up to be vaccinated without their parents’ consent, while Sen. Richard Pan would eliminate a personal belief exemption for schools.
Hell State.
Wonder where CA has built their concentration camps.
Read somewhere last year about new private prisons there, empty, skeleton staffed, and ready to go . . . hmm, where was that . . .
Yeah, great idea.
Wait until the virus blows over and then propose an employee inoculation mandate.
Sounds like legitimate science to me.
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Unvarnished totalitarianism.
It’s too late for that nonsense. The momentum is going in the other direction. More states are removing Mask requirements.
The same will happen with vax requirements.
No, hell cheaters who cheat their way into power
Where this BS hits a wall is with remote employees and contractors who live out of state.
Was CA exempt from the SCOTUS ruling? Or was it just on “Federal” mandates being unconstitutional?
You beat me to it.
Where does California get the authority to restrict interstate commerce?
Google Gilbert Hyatt to get an idea of California’s contempt for the other 49 states.
looks like california is begging for a trucker’s protest too!
That’s me and others too. Our company HQ is in Ca. but many of us live in other states. Eff you tyrants in Sacto.
Idiots are not learning anything from Canada.
Course, spineless Americans don’t seem to be either.
California is looking to be the protocol for the New World Order as it is implemented in the United States. There is going to be a final quarter in this life. . . woe to those who play to the end on the wrong team. May I suggest the team to be on is one led by The Ultimate Coach, Holy Spirit. . a Personal Coach that everyone can have by believing on Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
If the courts allow this to stand, the out migration will become a fire hose.
I’m convinced The Left wants a civil war or revolution. It feels it can’t just kill us, so it wants us to rise-up so it can claim to be acting in self-defense. That’s why The Left keeps pressing regarding Coronavirus regulations.
It is becoming more and more obvious even to the indoctrinated that the “vaccines” no longer work... at all. So yes, they need more and more mandates even to keep the boosters going. If people stop taking them... those multibillion dollar profits the big drug companies have been making are going to go flat. Their valuations will drop by who knows how much. So they are having to pull the strings and get their puppets to go into action wherever they can.
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