A business owner who owns 36 'Great Clips' franchise locations across Iowa and Nebraska spoke out against the Biden administration's new vaccine mandate, indicating that it would further harm small businesses recovering from an already tumultuous economic recovery.
She also said that businesses the White House had spoken with largely agreed with the mandate. "What more can we handle? What more can a small business absorb with everything that’s been going on in the last two years?" Akers asked.
Akers said the"exorbitant" costs associated with testing his employees — half of whom he claims are likely not interested in taking the vaccine — would only exacerbate increasing costs of operation incurred from COVID-19 safety and cleaning implementations."We will lose employees," asserted Akers."We’re already about 70 employees down from where we need to be and it’s a struggle to get back into the workforce right now—and this is going to add one more layer.
As part of his plan announced Thursday, Biden said companies with 100 or more employees will have to mandate vaccines or weekly COVID-19 testing under a forthcoming emergency order by the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration , which will apply to more than 80 million private-sector workers. The administration said companies that don’t comply can face fines of almost $14,000.
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