President Biden recently announced that 100 million American workers will be required to get vaccinated. Will it work?
Photo: Mark Peterson/Redux Earlier this month, President Biden announced a number of workplace COVID-19 vaccination mandates in a far-reaching attempt to boost the country’s vaccination rates. The proposed mandates would cover about two-thirds of the country’s workforce, though the Occupational Safety and Health Administration hasn’t yet released official guidelines for how it will work.
Will the mandates be challenged in court? Biden’s proposal to mandate vaccinations for government workers and at federally funded health-care facilities seems to be pretty safe from legal challenges. According to Dorit Reiss, a professor at UC Hastings who researches vaccine policy, the federal government is well within its bounds to set workplace standards for its own employees.
The other legal concern is that public-health policy generally tends to happen at the state or local level. Throughout the pandemic, many variations in masking and social-distancing laws have emerged, all put in place by governors and district officials who have something called “police power” — a state’s constitutional capacity to regulate the behavior of its inhabitants.
Will vaccine mandates make the workplace safer? Obviously, the more shots we have in people’s arms, the safer workplaces will become. “Workers have a right to be protected from exposure to any kind of hazard in the workplace,” says Laura Stock, the director of UC Berkeley’s Labor Occupational Health Program. COVID is clearly one of those hazards, and “vaccines are an important part of the strategy for preventing COVID exposure,” says Stock.
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