Justices block President Biden's requirement that most workers be vaccinated or tested for the coronavirus, but uphold his similar rule for healthcare workers.
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked President Biden’s plan to require that most workers be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing.
The vote was 6-3. Biden’s rule was based on the Occupational Safety Health Act of 1970, which protects employees from toxins and other dangers in the workplace. The justices said it does not go so far as to authorize mandatory vaccinations.“it is telling that OSHA, in its half century of existence, has never before adopted a broad public health regulation of this kind — addressing a threat that is untethered, in any causal sense, from the workplace...
Biden said the court’s decision to uphold the requirement for healthcare workers “will save lives: the lives of patients who seek care in medical facilities, as well as the lives of doctors, nurses and others who work there.” The outcome is not a surprise because of the makeup the court. The conservative majority is highly skeptical of new and far-reaching federal regulations.
The businesses and states told the court it would cost businesses billions of dollars to comply with the vaccinate-or-test rule, and they predicted it would “cause hundreds of thousands of employees to leave their jobs.”
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