Each business with over a hundred employees must see that each worker gets the jab, he said.
You must get the shot, Biden reiterated. You must, you must, you must.
Immediately, companies complied. If you’re a nurse and you’ve been a hero through the pandemic, you will be required to get the vaccine. Sorry, if you don’t want to get the shot, you won’t have a job. Bye.
Same to you if you are a police officer, a firefighter, or a member of the military.
Wait a minute, some objected. The president can’t just issue an executive order like that. It’s unconstitutional, illegal, immoral, and un-American.
These people are right. Biden cannot issue an executive order of this nature.
According to Bloomberg Law, “Biden this month told the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to write a rule requiring that companies get workers vaccinated or show that the employees test negative for Covid-19 each week.”
He isn’t even issuing the order himself — other than in speeches.
The vaccine mandate is nothing more than Joe Biden posturing. In reality, it’s dictatorship by news release, according to an insightful analysis by Joy Pullmann, executive editor of The Federalist.
So, there’s no mandate. This is why almost two dozen Republican attorneys general who said they would file suit against the mandate have done nothing so far.
Here’s the game Pullmann said the Biden administration is playing: They’re using an obscure procedure known as an emergency temporary standard.
In certain limited circumstances, OSHA says it can invoke an immediate special regulation if “workers are in grave danger due to exposure to toxic substances or agents determined to be toxic or physically harmful or to new hazards and that an emergency standard is needed to protect them.”
Once an emergency temporary standard has been issued, it then appears in the Federal Register for consideration as a permanent regulation. Normal regulation adoption procedures follow, with a final ruling to be made within six months, according to OSHA.
However, the “validity of an emergency temporary standard may be challenged in an appropriate U.S. Court of Appeals.”
Studying lawsuits surrounding an ETS are key because they show the smoke-and-mirrors aspects of Biden’s vaccine mandate strategy.
In 50 years, courts have upheld only one ETS of ten OSHA has put forth, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“Courts subject emergency standards to what appellate courts call a ‘hard look’ review, a more stringent standard than for ordinary economic regulations.”
But despite the Biden administration’s imaginary vaccination mandate, big businesses seem delighted to throw unvaccinated employees out the door.
In fact, use of the ETS gives companies a place to hide from angry workers.
Not all companies whose lawyers spoke with Bloomberg Law are completely favorable towards the vaccine mandates. There are some companies with a “mixed reaction,” said Jonathan Segal, a Philadelphia employment lawyer.
“Clients that don’t favor it think it’s impracticable or don’t like it because of the cost,” Segal said.
Whether or not companies are fully on board with this idea, vaccine mandates are being issued in companies across America.
See how easy that is? No pesky legislation. Not even an executive order.
It’s just Joe Biden and the Democrats telling you — and American businesses — what to do.
For them, this truly is “manna from heaven.”
