Companies that used mandates to achieve relatively high vaccination rates may decide they have accomplished enough.
Many large corporations were silent on Thursday's ruling by the high court to block a Biden administration requirement that workers at businesses with at least 100 employees be fully vaccinated or else test regularly for COVID-19 and wear a mask on the job. An estimated 80 million private-sector workers would have fallen under the mandate.
In legal terms, the Supreme Court's conservative majority said the OSHA lacked authority to impose such a mandate on big companies. The court, however, let stand a vaccination requirement for most health care workers."Over a third of companies were waiting for OSHA's guidance before making any definitive policy decisions on vaccines.
Karen Harned, an official with the National Federation of Independent Business, said that as smaller businesses employing more than 100 people try to recover from nearly two years of pandemic,"the last thing they need is a mandate that would cause more business challenges."But mandate supporters called it a matter of safety for employees and customers.
Administration officials believe that even though the OSHA rule has been blocked, it drove millions of people to get vaccinated in the interim. But companies that used mandates to achieve relatively high vaccination rates may decide that they have accomplished enough. The Service Employees International Union, which represents more than 2 million service industry workers, said the Supreme Court's decision is a relief for health care workers but leaves others without critical protections."In blocking the vaccine-or-test rule for large employers, the court has placed millions of other essential workers further at risk, caving to corporations that are trying to rig the rules against workers permanently," the union said.
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