President Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate is expected to push 23 million workers at large companies to get vaccinated but the political backlash, disruptive legal fight and threat of workplace upheaval over the holiday season beg the question: Is it all worth it? Retail lobbyists and economists say worksite vaccine clinics or sharper messaging would be a better way for the administration to reach its target - about 7% of the U.S. population - than the vaccine-or-test requirement dictated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for workers at large companies.
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly of Kansas said it is "Too late" to impose a federal standard on the COVID-19 fight.
Others fear mandates will chase workers into smaller businesses that are exempt from the rules - a phenomenon that would both disrupt the labor force and leave those workers unvaccinated.
"This is a whole bunch of flash without much bang," said Paul Mango, the Health and Human Services Department liaison to Operation Warp Speed during the Trump administration.
"It's going to create a lot of supply-side economic problems. Even if only 5% of employees quit, on the margin, that's huge." The American Action Forum estimates that somewhere between 10 million and 16 million workers could seek to change employment under the OSHA rule, which applies to 84 million employees in the private workforce and is supposed to take effect on Jan. 4..
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/27/bunch-flash-without-much-bang-are-vaccine-mandates/
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