![]() Two federal appeals courts had blocked enforcement in 24 states the requirement went into effect in the remaining 26. The Supreme Court on Thursday said a separate regulation that requires vaccinations for health care workers who treat Medicare and Medicaid patients can be enforced. "As small businesses try to recover after almost two years of significant business disruptions, the last thing they need is a mandate that would cause more business challenges," Harned said. She expressed optimism that with the OSHA rule now halted, the lower courts will proceed to find the regulation illegal. Karen Harned, the executive director of the group's small business legal center, said the Supreme Court ruling was a "welcome relief" to businesses struggling to keep afloat during the pandemic. The National Federation of Independent Business said the appeals court ruling was "a gut punch to America's small businesses who are struggling to stay in business as they come out of the pandemic." Circuit Court of Appeals called the OSHA rule "an important step in curtailing the transmission of a deadly virus that has killed over 800,000 people in the United States, brought our health care system to its knees, and cost hundreds of thousands of workers their jobs." In lifting the earlier stay, a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. "Requiring the vaccination of 84 million Americans, selected simply because they work for employers with more than 100 employees, certainly falls in the latter category." ![]() "Although Congress has indisputably given OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly," the conservative justices wrote in an unsigned opinion. ![]() The court's conservative majority said the administration had gone too far in imposing such a sweeping requirement on the nation's businesses. ![]() workers, would save over 6,500 lives and prevent 250,000 hospitalizations in the next six months. OSHA estimated that the rule, which would have covered nearly 80 million U.S. Hans Gutknecht / Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images A woman gets a Covid-19 vaccine shot at Union Station in Los Angeles on Jan 7. The workplace rule, which the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, announced last fall, required companies with 100 or more employees to ensure that their workers either get vaccinated or wear masks and show negative Covid test results at least once a week. ![]()
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