Vaccine mandates could soon apply to more than 80 million American workers. Here's what employers would be required to do.
They may have wanted to require inoculations but worried about alienating vaccine-wary employees and perhaps losing them to rival employers that didn't impose mandates.
"They say: 'Look, as a condition of our continuing to do business, we've just got to go with the mandate, guys,'" Mr Walhquist said As a result, several states with Republican governors have vowed to overturn the OSHA regulations in court, calling it an unconstitutional power grab by the federal government.
South Carolina Attorney-General Alan Wilson, who also is chairman of the Republican Attorneys-General Association, said on Twitter he was confident the mandate could be stopped.With the latest ruling, it's not clear when the requirement may be put in place.
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