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Federal appeals court keeps on hold Biden's vaccine-or-testing rule view | edit | list | share
Contributor's comments: WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court Friday called a Biden administration rule requiring large companies to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for employees "staggeringly overbroad" and ordered that its implementation remain blocked in a divisive case likely bound for the Supreme Court.
Businesses with 100 or more employees had been required under the rule to stand up vaccine or regular testing requirements by Jan. 4 or face penalties of nearly $14,000 per violation under an emergency Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule made public this month.
But the emergency regulation prompted more dozens of lawsuits from conservative states and businesses questioning whether the federal agency responsible for ensuring workplace safety has the power to impose requirements for fighting a pandemic.