We will see what the Courts say....
I suggest you reference the earlier U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1905 allowing vaccination mandates. Plus all the court decisions upholding Labor Department rules for worker safety which were instituted by the Executive branch and not Congress.
So I don’t know if vaccine mandates for workplaces is what the legal stance they may be taking actually is. Rather weekly testing can be halted on vaccinated workers. Testing is certainly a lawful workplace regulation. It’s sort of a back door mandate. Courts have upheld “coercion” in the past as constitutional.
It’s actually a very clever legal strategy.
You are making a common equivalency mistake here..
The vaccination mandates you are referring to come from state laws requiring vaccines for kids to attend public and now private schools. Laws passed by the state's legislature.
Worker safety regulations were passed under the APA rulemaking process and when any workplace rules were arbitrary or excessive they were struck down in court challenges. APA follows a process of due process upheld by the courts and has the same weight as legislative acts. Often they are authroized by acts of congress which grants them the power for rulemaking.
So polio and MMR vaccines are required by LAW. OSHA regulations are permitted under the APA under authority of acts of Congress and evne OSHA regulations can be challenged for overreaching or arbitrary.
Now DoL telling only certain type of employers they must MANDATE a vaccine to all or suffer a fine is an extreme overreach because the application is arbitrary. Also the vaccince is not required under any federal or state law so where is the justification to force private employers to require vaccines?
imposing a fine puts a penalty on the mandate which raises the bar for judicial review because of the taking of money without due process...
Courts will uphold the testing and therefore the alternative to testing, vaccination.
This comes under the Labor Department requiring safe workplaces. And since they provide a testing alternative -- you can't say they are "mandating" vaccination.
I fail to see how a court would knock this down -- without knocking down a host of other workplace safety regulations about protective gear, etc.
Courts will uphold the testing and therefore the alternative to testing, vaccination.
So Amazon has a large % of its workforce working remote from home.... are oyu saying AMAZON has to force employees sitting at home to get a vaccine not required by law simply because Amazon does not want to be fined.
Why do workers sitting in their home have to be vaccinated by an employer if they never set foot in the office? Does this extend to employees out of the country? What about foreign companies in the U.S.? What about independent contractors who are not employees?
This is as far overreach as DeSantis' actions.
you think it is ok for the federal government to force employers to do weekly testing.... but only if you have 100 or more employees?
Is weekly testing required under the law or is it a preference for private employers?
can an employee sue a company like AMAZON and demand they test all employees weekly?