Fri Nov 19, 2021 – 4:33 pm EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — Days after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced that it will comply with a federal court order not to enforce the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on American businesses, the White House says it still wants businesses to carry out the mandate on their own.
“Our message to businesses right now is to move forward with measures that will make their workplaces safer and protect their workforces from COVID-19,” Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday, the Epoch Times reports. “That was our message after the first stay issued by the Fifth Circuit. That remains our message and nothing has changed.”
“We are still heading towards the same timeline” of a January 4, 2021 deadline for implementation, she continued. “The Department of Justice is vigorously defending the emergency temporary standard in court and we are confident in OSHA’s authority.”
On September 9, President Joe Biden announced he was directing OSHA to draft a rule to “require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a
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