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Abolish OSHA

• https://www.fff.org, by Laurence M. Vance

In response to President Biden's national strategy to combat COVID-19 by vaccinating the unvaccinated, on November 5, 2021, OSHA issued an "Emergency Temporary Standard" (ETS) requiring that businesses with 100 or more employees either require all their employees to get the COVID vaccine or elect to undergo "regular" testing for COVID after January 4 (of 2022) and wear a face mask at work beginning on December 4. This ETS is estimated to cover over 84 million American workers. Businesses that refuse to abide by the rule face heavy fines, up to $136,532.

Almost immediately after the release of the rule, 26 states sued to stop its implementation. A day later, on November 6, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals—covering Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi—issued a stay on enforcing the vaccine mandate pending "expedited judicial review" because it found cause to believe there were "grave statutory and constitutional issues with the Mandate."

According to legal scholar James R. Rogers of Texas A&M University: "OSHA has tried to use the ETS process only nine times in its history. Of those nine ETS attempts, six were challenged in court. And of those six challenged, only one ETS was upheld."

In a decision issued on November 12, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals further ordered that "OSHA take no steps to implement or enforce the Mandate until further court order."


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