President Joe Biden plans to announce that the Department of Labor will require companies with 100 or more workers to implement vaccine-or-test mandates, part of a series of new measures aimed at boosting coronavirus vaccination rates, senior administration officials said Thursday.
Key Facts
The emergency order from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will impact 80 million workers and require unvaccinated workers to be tested at least once a week, according to a White House fact sheet reviewed by Forbes.
Businesses that don’t comply with the order could face “substantial fines” up to nearly $14,000 per violation, an official told Forbes.
The official also dismissed concerns that the rule will result in litigation, telling reporters Labor Secretary Marty Walsh has “a right to do this,” and said the rulemaking will be “done in a couple weeks” and implemented shortly thereafter.
OSHA will also develop a rule to require businesses with over 100 workers to provide paid time off to get vaccinated and recover from any side effects, according to the fact sheet.
Biden is also planning to stop giving federal workers the option to submit to regular coronavirus testing instead of getting vaccinated, with White House press secretary Jen Psaki telling reporters unvaccinated workers will have about 75 days to get their shot.
Psaki said federal workers who refuse to get vaccinated after 75 days will go through the “standard HR process, which includes counseling,” and will face “progressive disciplinary action.”
Biden will sign an additional executive order extending that vaccine mandate to contractors that do business with the federal government.
Biden is also expanding a directive withholding federal funds from nursing homes that don’t mandate coronavirus vaccinations for staff to “most healthcare settings” that participate in Medicare and Medicaid, covering 17 million health care workers, the fact sheet says.
Tangent
Other parts of Biden’s sweeping new coronavirus and economic recovery plan include increasing the number of federal personnel deployed to hospitals to treat coronavirus patients, accelerating the distribution of monoclonal antibodies and coronavirus tests, doubling fines for violating the government’s mass transit mask mandate, expanding loans and loan forgiveness to small businesses and pushing for vaccine mandates and regular testing in schools.
Big Number
652,480. That’s the number of coronavirus deaths the U.S. has faced throughout the pandemic, with 1,647 deaths reported on Wednesday, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Chief Critic
“A forced vaccine should never be a condition for employment & this is nothing short of tyranny,” Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) tweeted of the mandate for federal workers, with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) adding, “People will remember those who did this to them & who did not speak out.”
F*K YOU BIDEN THE PHOTOSHOP NON EXISTANT PRESIDENT RUN BY GOV.COM
We the people do not have a president. We do not have Law until We restore it with Common Law courts. Bill of Rights can not be taken away from any of us…… this would mean Death!!!
F$&K YOU AND YOUR F$&KING TREASONOUS EXECUTIVE ORDERS, YOU TREASONOUS DEMENTED PIECE OF SHIT! I will not take the jab nor will I have a F&@King Q Tip JAMMED UP MY NOSE ONCE A WEEK IN ORDER TO WORK!!! Motherf&$ker!!!
Someone get rid of this piece of shit. He’s not even a real president!
It goes against HIPPA and is medical discrimination, you piece of shit!
HIPPA is legislated policy. Biden’s act violates the Bill of Rights and hence is not illegal, but rather unlawful. He has no jurisdictional authority and is attempting to violate the due process of the law guaranteed in the supreme superior absolute ratified by we the people law of December 15, 1791. It is high treason, but what his communist committee is doing every day is high treason and that is what they would be tried for.
Kill the chems!!! mfers dont know no bounds!!! death to the complicit!!!
Meanwhile, Creepy Joe is clammoring for Afghan “refugees” (Taliban or not, ISIS or not, Al Qaida or not) to not get vaxxed because after all it’s cruel to hurt these wonderful folks whom Biden brought here in order to murder or traffick Americans….after all, didn’t he murder those he deliberately left behind (esp. Christians….but that way, the Noahiders wouldn’t… right Frump and that son-in-law of yours, whathisname?)
Ya know?
I do so enjoy the sound of black powder arms 🙂
Vax related: 36 seconds with Jimmy Kimmel @2:31 – 3:07:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sk4mAPS3zQ
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