Anonymous ID: 7cf070 Nov. 8, 2021, 12:29 p.m. No.14953218   🗄️.is đź”—kun

"Louisiana businessman Brandon Trosclair is suing the Biden administration over its COVID-19 vaccination mandate aimed at private businesses with 100 or more employees. Trosclair, an Ascension Parish resident, employs nearly 500 people across 15 grocery stores in Louisiana and Mississippi. Under the mandate, he will be forced to fire unvaccinated workers who do not comply with strict federal rules. The policy also imposes nearly $14,000 in fines per employee if businesses are caught letting their workers skirt the mandate. "Willful violations” could result in fines up to $136,000.

“Over the past 20 months, my employees have showed up to work and served their communities in the face of COVID and hurricanes. Now I’m being told by the government to insert myself into their private health decisions? That’s wrong and I won’t stand for it,” Trosclair said in a statement.

With assistance from the Liberty Justice Center, a public interest law firm, and the New Orleans-based Pelican Institute for Public Policy, Trosclair filed a federal lawsuit Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry also filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the employer vaccination mandate with four other attorneys general. Trosclair’s lawsuit argues the mandate is “illegal, divisive and un-American.”

Specifically, the challenge centers on the administration’s newly announced emergency temporary standard rule authorizing the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to enforce the policy."

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/louisiana-business-owner-challenges-biden-vaccination-mandate-in-court