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September 17, 2021

Biden tasks OSHA with vaccine mandate

  • When Congress created OSHA 50 years ago, 38 workers were dying on the job every day. Now that figure is closer to 15 — even though the American workforce has more than doubled.
    • By PAUL WISEMAN
    AP Economics Writer

    WASHINGTON — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration doesn't make many headlines. Charged with keeping America's workplaces safe, it usually busies itself with tasks such as setting and enforcing standards for goggles, hardhats and ladders.

    But President Joe Biden this month threw the tiny Labor Department agency into the raging national debate over federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The president directed OSHA to write a rule requiring employers with at least 100 workers to force employees to get vaccinated or produce weekly test results showing they are virus free.


     
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