Biden announced Thursday that as of January 4, 2022, all employers with more than 100 employees must mandate vaccines for their employees. A small business advocacy group, Job Creators Network, is challenging the mandate.
According to the White House, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will lead the enforcement of the mandate. Workers must be fully vaccinated or succumb to weekly testing and mask wearing.
The business advocacy group is filing a lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit against the administration to block the vaccine mandate, Just the News reports.
“The Biden administration’s vaccine mandate is clearly illegal and will have a devastating impact on our small business community and our entire economy,” the group’s president and CEO Alfredo Ortiz said. “The administration’s mandate will exacerbate the worst labor shortage in recorded history by requiring small business owners to terminate some employees who wish not to get vaccinated while also shrinking the pool of job applicants available for hiring.”
The plaintiffs represented in the lawsuit include: Lawrence Transportation Company, Guy Chemical Company, the Rabine Group of Companies, Independent Bakers Association, Terri Mitchell, a Guy Chemical employee.
