https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-13/supreme-court-halts-osha-rule-that-covered-80-million-workers
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Companies may still impose mandates, but they won't be able to hide under the skirts of the Federal government if they do so. So, unless elected representatives immunize companies from liability, AT&T may be found liable if serious side effects occur from the vaccinations years from now.
Meanwhile, the CDC has found "breakthrough infections in people who are fully vaccinated are likely to occur" and "CDC expects that anyone with Omicron infection can spread the virus to others, even if they are vaccinated or don’t have symptoms."
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/omicron-variant.html
It seems the virus has mutated beyond the point where a vaccination can prevent infection, although it does reduce or eliminate symptoms. That brings up a very interesting issue - who is going to report to work, someone with symptoms, or someone without. Both can transmit the virus once at work.
It was a vaccine mandate that made sense a few mutations ago, but dubious now, with one exception, to reduce AT&T's health expenses by reducing employees requiring hospitalization. That's a math problem - most hospitalizations are in the elderly, post employment population.
Glad my state requires employers to honor exemptions.
Curious as to what this means for states that passed bills banning vaccine mandates (like Georgia) or had executive orders banning them (like Texas, where AT&T is headquartered). I don't think this is all over by any means.
You mean the firings haven't started yet?
T should keep and enforce it so half of you humps get tossed out.
They allowed the mandate for health care workers so everyone will be reclassified as such because you may have installed a phone Jack where a doctor or nurse lived.
T can still have their own mandate. Its only the Federal Government (OSHA) that cannot mandate all companies with over 100 employees to be tested. The mandate for healthcare workers working in facilities that accept Medicaid or Medicare still stands.
Unfortunately it just means the govt can’t force employers to vaccinate their employers.
The doesn’t stop the employer from doing it on their own. (There are other cases on that still in lower courts though)
Basically we are back to how it was before Biden issued the nationwide rule… companies decide vs govt decide.