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Biden to companies with 100+ employees: Mandate vaccines, or test weekly, or else!!!

The Employer Handbook

Yesterday, President Biden announced that all businesses with 100+ employees will soon have to ensure that their workers are vaccinated or tested weekly. Mandatory vaccinations or weekly testing for private employers with 100+ employees. Healthcare workers must get vaccinated if they haven’t done so already.

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OSHA Releases Biden Vaccine Mandate for Private Employers

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It’s been eight weeks since President Biden announced a federal COVID vaccine mandate for private employers. He directed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to draft an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to that effect, and today, OSHA made the details public.

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Biden Announces Vaccine Mandate for Employers

BerniePortal

As the US averages 145,000 new COVID cases and 1,600 deaths per day due to the contagious Delta variant, the federal government has recently taken its most aggressive step yet to combat the virus. On September 9, President Biden announced a vaccine mandate for private employers with over 100 workers.

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Legal experts: Don’t delay in prepping for Biden vaccine mandate

HRExecutive

As employers await final guidance on how to follow federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates and accommodate exemptions, experts advise leaders to put their strategies and tools in place now to be ahead of the game. Related: Mandating vaccines? Get your HR and legal staff prepared now for what’s coming next.”

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Business groups ask President Biden to delay COVID-19 vaccine mandates for a few months

The Employer Handbook

CNBC’s Spencer Kimball has reported here that “business groups are pleading with the White House” to delay President Joe Biden’s Covid vaccine mandate for private companies with 100+ employees “until after the holiday season” because they fear it could that “cause a mass exodus of employees.”

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White Paper: OSHA Vaccine Mandate

Affinity HR Group

On November 5, 2021, OSHA published an emergency temporary standard establishing the requirement to “minimize the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the workplace” and to “protect unvaccinated employees of large employers from the risk of contracting COVID-19 in the workplace.” Covered employers and employees. Background.

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HR lessons from the Southwest vaccine mandate controversy

HRExecutive

However, news reports, fueled by claims from conservative lawmakers, hinted that the pilots’ union had actually staged a work stoppage in protest of President Joe Biden’s recent vaccine mandate executive order. Related: Mandating vaccines? And earlier this week, Gov.