The Supreme Court dealt the Biden administration’s coronavirus strategy a decisive blow when it blocked enforcement of the vaccine-or-test rule that had just days before taken effect for more than 80 million workers nationwide.
President Joe Biden, although he was “disappointed” in the high court’s decision Thursday to block what he called a “common-sense life-saving requirements for employees at large businesses,” delegated to state leaders and employers, asking them to “do the right thing” by imposing vaccine requirements of their own.
And although a patchwork of mandates exist in states and localities – requiring populations of state workers, students, customers and spectators to be vaccinated – whether state leaders will step in on the types of private-sector employee requirements the Biden administration fell short on remains unclear.
At the state level, vaccine mandates for various state employees are common, like in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin, according to the labor and employment law analysis firm Littler. Many of the requirements also apply to teachers.
New York City late last month became the first to extend its vaccine mandates to all employees within the private sector – a measure that goes further than the Biden administration’s would have. But outside of the nation’s most populous city, requirements...
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