The occupational safety and health administration said they were "seeking comment" about whether businesses with fewer than 100 employees should be subject to the COVID-19 vaccine and the testing mandates it is also implementing on bug businesses. This new requirement will force businesses with over 100 employees to mandate the vaccine for their employees or the employees will have to wear a mask and get test for Covid weekly. Since this has been announced administration is now considering implementing this for businesses under 100 employees as well. As of now the administration believes they need more time to access the effects this could have on smaller employers before they go an implement the policy. Personally I find this to be a shock that administration is considering this. considering the labor shortage that is effecting the whole United States, I feel as if making it harder to have one enter the work force is counter productive in trying to lower the unemployment rate. The most recent unemployment numbers had shown a decrease which is good, but could that also be because less people are looking for jobs given a vaccine requirement?
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Unfortunately, I think this is a situation where we have to weigh the costs and benefits of each outcome. With employees increasingly leaving their jobs over workplace vaccine mandates, we should assume this will have dire consequences for small businesses. But the effects of COVID-19 on our economy as a whole might be more detrimental as fears continue to be present about the future. Which limits our ability to fully recover from this health crisis. Not to mention the rising costs of insurance as more people become hospitalize or deal with the long term effects for those that experienced severe symptoms of COVID-19.
I think there will need to be more discussions to fully explore this option but the longer this pandemic ravages the U.S. and the world, the harder it will be to return to normal.
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