hanks to the Supreme Court, President Joe Biden never was able to institute the nationwide employer vaccine mandate he said was essential to ending the COVID-19 pandemic. Inthe six conservative justices held that since the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 was passed to address “occupational” safety, not everyday health problems, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration lacks the power to force all employers to make all workers get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Many large employers instituted vaccine mandates anyway, however, since evidence at the time suggested the vaccines were effective in lowering the spread of COVID-19. Private employers had every right to institute this measure. Owners can run their businesses how they want as long as they do not discriminate against anyone, and vaccine mandates do not discriminate.
The evidence on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines has changed, though, especially as the number of variations has proliferated. “At this point in the pandemic, the case for vaccine mandates is much weaker than it was in 2021,” George Washington University public health professor Leana Wen toldGoldman Sachs, Cisco, JP Morgan, Salesforce, and Boeing are just a few of the major corporations that once had vaccine mandates for all employees but have since rescinded them.
With a tight labor market giving employees significant bargaining power over employers, it isn’t surprising that employers are dropping what many talented employees saw as an unnecessary nuisance. It is good to see sanity returning to corporate America, at least on COVID-19 issues. Hopefully, they will soon reverse course on their larger woke agendas as well.
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