President Joe Biden on Thursday defended the move to issue sweeping vaccine mandates for federal contractors, healthcare workers, and private-sector employees.
The Department of Labor issued a vaccine-or-test requirement to tens of millions of private-sector employees at workplaces with 100 or more workers with a Jan. 4 deadline, which has sparked concerns of worker shortages in key industries amid supply-chain bottlenecks. Federal contractors and most healthcare workers have a Jan. 4 deadline to get vaccinated without the option to submit to weekly testing under the rule.
