Wed Nov 17, 2021 – 12:50 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced this week that it will comply with a federal judge’s order to hold off enforcing President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for tens of millions of Americans.
On September 9, Biden announced that he was directing OSHA to draft a rule to “require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis before coming to work.”
Almost two months later, OSHA released the official details of the rule, which will take effect January 4, 2022. It is expected to affect around 84 million employees from around 1.9 million private businesses, further exacerbating staffing shortages across the U.S. economy.
Twenty-two states have filed lawsuits against the mandate, as have employers such as the Daily Wire and affected workers such as airline pilots. Last week, a panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the mandate over “grave statutory and constitutional issues,” then rejected a Biden administration
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