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Biden Admin to Rely on Workplace Whistleblowers to Enforce Vaccine Mandate

The Biden administration will rely on workplace whistleblowers to enforce its new vaccine mandate for companies with more than 100 employees, given that the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) does not have nearly enough inspectors to check in on every company impacted by the rule, which will effect an estimated 84 million employees, according to a new report.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans last week issued an injunction temporarily halting the Biden administration’s vaccination requirement for large employers, citing “grave statutory and constitutional issues.” However, if the policy goes into effect — requiring workers to be fully vaccinated by January 4 or be tested weekly and wear a mask on the job — the Associated Press reports that it is concerned employees who will largely be responsible for helping OSHA enforce the mandate.

Debbie Berkowitz, a former OSHA chief of staff who is a fellow at Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, told the AP that there is “no army of OSHA inspectors that is going to be knocking on employers’ door of even calling them.”

“They’re going to rely on workers and their union representatives to file complaints where the company is totally flouting the law,” she added.

Obviously, this is not the Let’s Go Brandon admin saying they will do this, but, the article points out that 20-25% of OSHA inspections are due to complaints. How many Vaccine Cultists will file complaints against their own companies? How many of them will be Demanding that they be told who is unvaccinated and who’s supposed to be tested on a constant basis? Information they are not entitled to? Think they won’t? This is 2021, people demand information they aren’t entitled to all the time these days.

Meanwhile

(Business Insider) Two businesses with just under 100 employees have told The New York Times they’re wary about hiring more staff as the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate looms.

The Times reported that Apex/Rentco Trailer Sales & Service, of Jeffersonville, Indiana, employed 98 people and was seeking to fill open positions.

Christie Thompson, head of human resources, told the publication it would be a “nightmare” if her company had to comply with the vaccine mandate. Thompson estimated that three-quarters of the company’s employees were unvaccinated, per The Times.

Dawn Stanhope, president of Boys & Girls Clubs of Manatee County, in Florida, told The Times that she “might lose a quarter of our staff” if the vaccine mandate applied to her company, which employed 96 people and had struggled to hire additional workers. “It’s easier not to have the conflict and potential of losing people,” she added.

How many more will limit hiring? Also, I’ve missed it, but, what about part timers? Do they count towards 100?

(ABC News) Pamela Millwood isn’t against getting vaccinated. But at the federal prison where she works in Jesup, Georgia, many of her coworkers are skeptical or downright opposed to getting a shot.

The result, she predicts, will be an exodus of some 30% to 40% of staff this holiday season, when prison employees will fall under a sweeping mandate that requires the nation’s 2 million civilian workers to become fully immunized against COVID-19.

Who’ll staff prisons, particularly in low vax areas where they’ve just been living with COVID? Northeast liberals? California liberals?