The Biden administration estimates that if a proposed vaccine mandate were to be enforced, it would lead to 22 million more people getting vaccinated, preventing about 250,000 hospitalizations and 6,500 deaths over six months.
The mandate, formally proposed by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, calls for a COVID-19 vaccination-or-testing mandate aimed at employers with more than 100 employees.
The requirement, issued in November, is vital to the administration’s efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic. It is being challenged in the U.S. Supreme Court with a decision probably about the time this article is published.
However, even if the Supreme Court were to reject the OSHA mandate, vaccines will continue to play an integral role in the COVID-19 workplace terrain.
OSHA already is authorized to impose standards and regulations on employers to protect workplace health and safety. OSHA’s vaccine-or-test mandate requires covered employers to either implement a mandatory vaccination policy or submit to regular COVID-19 testing and wear a mask.
So why did OSHA limit the mandate’s application to employers with 100 or more employees? OSHA said it is “proceeding in a step-wise fashion” to companies it believed had “sufficient administrative systems in place to quickly comply,” adding that it would continue to compile information to determine whether to expand the mandate’s scope to smaller employers.
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