OSHA announces new federal vaccine mandate for businesses—and gives employers until Jan. 4 to...

Who’s paying for the tests?

SSG (Join to see) Most likely the same ones who are paying for the vaccines. I googled “free COVID testing”, and got a number of hits; there’s also the HHS website.

I’m not overly concerned about it, though.

https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/community-based-testing-sites/index.html#georgia

Well if companies dont want to receive fines, they will fire the employee. My interpretation.

SSG (Join to see) - Just wanted everyone to realize the options companies have

SrA John Monette - I believe you left out a word, "fire." If so you are correct. however, if they are federal contractors, they will lose the contract. If they have more than 100 employees they will pay fines for each employee who is not vaccinated, up as much as $13,653 for the first offense. Then if OSHA comes back next week, the company will face a maximum fine as high as $136,532 per violation. Source: https://www.osha.gov/penalties/

I hope that source meets everyone's bias check.

It appears to me the options are:
_Get 100% compliance with vaccination requirements*
_Fire/lay off as many employees as needed to bring your employment numbers under 100 and
_Lose all federal contract business if you have less than 100 employees,
or
_Get fined out of existence.

So not really much of a choice at all in those options, or did I miss something?

*Employees may request a medical exemption
_Allergies to Polyethylene glycol, unquestioned
_Multisystem inflammatory syndrome, unquestioned
These two conditions combined will grant unquestioned exemptions. However, there are a number of cases where doctors employment has been terminated for writing an endorsement that a patient not be vaccinated based in auto-immune deficiencies, glandular conditions, cancer treatments, etc; so many physicians will no longer do so.

or

Employees may request a religious exemption, in turn they are being asked to
_Document worship attendance
_Document when they became adherents to their faith
_Document specific written dogma and doctrine of an established faith that bans vaccination
_etc.
Kind of screwed up that in America, one cannot establish a religious test for holding political office; but it is fine and dandy for holding gainful employment.

I was fine with federal employees being mandated to get the vaccine or face termination. This may be a bit of an overreach, though. Private companies should be able to mandate or not mandate. Same as they can deny access to someone who is carrying a firearm, or not make a cake for someone they don't agree with.