The Biden administration will force private-sector employers to mandate all of their employees either get the COVID-19 shot or produce a negative test weekly.
The new rule, developed by the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), applies to all businesses with 100 employees or more. Businesses that do not comply with the new federal requirements could face “substantial fines up to nearly $14,000 per violation.”
The Biden admin w/ enforce "substantial fines up to nearly $14,000 per violation" to employers that don't abide by the vaccine or weekly testing mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees that @POTUS will announce later today, per @WHCOVIDResponse Jeff Zients.
— Patsy Widakuswara (@pwidakuswara) September 9, 2021
According to Axios, the new order extends to “more than 80 million Americans working in the private sector.”
The mandates are part of a larger plan from the administration to push the COVID vaccines on health care workers and offer COVID “booster” shots to Americans as early as Sept. 20. The White House’s next steps are to pressure entertainment hubs and venues to require a vaccine passport or negative test for entry and require “staff in school settings” to be vaccinated. --->READ MORE HERE
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| Evan Vucci / AP |
President Joe Biden on Thursday is announcing sweeping new federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100 million Americans in an all-out effort to increase COVID-19 vaccinations and curb the surging delta variant.
The expansive rules mandate that all employers with more than 100 workers require them to be vaccinated or test for the virus weekly, affecting about 80 million Americans.
And the roughly 17 million workers at health facilities that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid also will have to be fully vaccinated.
Biden is also signing an executive order to require vaccination for employees of the executive branch and contractors who do business with the federal government — with no option to test out.
That covers several million more workers. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to related stories and resources:
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