The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will give Companies, Additional Time, to get Employees Vaccinated or Regularly Tested.
The Labor Department announced on Saturday, that it was pushing back the Date for Businesses to Comply with its Vaccine-or-Test Mandate.
OSHA is "gratified the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit dissolved the Fifth Circuit's stay of the Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard," The Regulatory Agency stated.
OSHA issued the Temporary Standard on Nov. 4, which would require Businesses, with 100 or more Employees, to Mandate either Vaccines or Frequent Testing.
OSHA stated that to "provide employers with sufficient time to come into compliance," it would provide Businesses Not Complying with the Nov. 4 Standard until Jan. 10, to get things in order or face Citations. Now, Noncompliance Citations regarding Testing Requirements would Not be issued before Feb. 9, so long as an Employer is exercising Reasonable, Good Faith Efforts, to come into Compliance with the Standard.
The Standard drew ire from State Lawmakers. A Coalition of States challenged the Mandate in the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, which issued a Stay. Then, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, Reinstated the Requirement, claiming in its Decision that "OSHA has demonstrated the pervasive danger that COVID-19 poses to workers — unvaccinated workers in particular — in their workplaces."
State Lawmakers have already signaled that they intend to Appeal the 6th Circuit Decision.
"A bad decision by a left-leaning panel (Bush and Obama judges) of the 6th Cir. It's un-American to force an unconst vax mandate on private biz, forcing people to choose b/w unemployment & an irreversible med procedure," Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton (R) tweeted on Friday. "I will immediately take this to SCOTUS to seek a reversal."
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