Biden Plans to Require Vaccines or Weekly Testing for 80 Million Private-Sector Workers

Biden Plans to Require Vaccines or Weekly Testing for 80 Million Private-Sector Workers
President Joe Biden speaks on workers rights and labor unions in the East Room at the White House in Washington on Sept. 8, 2021. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
Jack Phillips
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President Joe Biden will direct the Department of Labor to develop a rule that companies with more than 100 employees will require vaccinations or once-per-week testing for their workers, potentially affecting tens of millions of U.S. private-sector employees, according to the White House.

The administration’s rule will require that “all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis before coming to work,” which will affect more than 80 million workers in the private sector.

Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
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