Sure sounds like OSHA's going to have a hard time enforcing Biden's federal vaccine mandate
Allahpundit Sep 13, 2021 8:01 PM ET
I don’t mean a hard time legally, although that’ll probably be the case as well once the lawsuits get rolling.
I mean a hard time logistically. Insider has a look this afternoon at the agency that’s now been tasked with riding herd on vaccination for 100,000 U.S. companies encompassing 80 million workers. OSHA wasn’t well-staffed even in the best of times but they were pared down further during Trump’s presidency as part of his deregulation initiatives. Now Biden’s deputizing them to be the vaccine police for something like half the U.S. economy.
Which raises two questions. Are they remotely capable of handling this task? If they aren’t, does it matter?
“It’s always been true with OSHA that especially relative to other government agencies, it’s just woefully understaffed,” Professor Matthew Johnson, a labor economist at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, told Insider. “From the outset, they’ve been kind of under-resourced both in terms of their manpower, in terms of the inspectors, and they’ve also always been very limited in the size of penalties that the agency can levy on employers they catch violating the law.”…
By 2019, the total number of OSHA inspectors had fallen to the lowest levels since 1971, according to an April report from the AFL-CIO. There are now only 1,798 total OSHA inspectors, federal and state, coming out to one inspector per 82,881 workers and just $3.97 budgeted per covered worker…
“OSHA is rather toothless, in a lot of ways, in the fines that it can implement,” Conti said. “They’re very low in proportion to the harm that is often caused, but employers will fight these fines and appeal them through every avenue possible, spending two, three, four, ten times as much money on legal proceedings then they would actually just paying the fine.”more
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