The Biden Administration is getting more blowback on its plan to mandate vaccines for companies with more than 100 employees. Louisiana Association of Business and Industry President and CEO Stephen Waguespack opposes the action that would impact about two-thirds of the American workforce and a quarter of LABI members. He says, “it will leave our economic engine in shatters once businesses are forced to comply.”
Waguespack says he’s been vaccinated and LABI encourages everyone to consult their doctor about whether to do the same. He says requiring American companies to mandate Covid vaccinations is clearly not the role of the federal government, but “we no doubt need to be encouraging vaccinations, we need to help people flatten the curve.”
Waguespack says the Biden plan has the potential to offshore American companies who fear losing their employees over the vaccine mandate, while noting that there is currently a record high number of job openings for the fifth month in a row. He says the Biden plan to mandate Covid 19 vaccines for companies with more than 100 employees will place them in a tough position by putting businesses “in the role of having to be vaccination police.” He wonders, “how do they ensure that the forms are correct, what fines will be coming in, what lawsuits are they subjected to.”
He’s imploring the President to reconsider his plan and return a more productive and constitutional effort to improve the vaccination rate through education and access.
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