For Immediate Release:
October 21, 2021
NATE Requests Public Comment Period for Federal Vaccine Mandate
(Washington, DC) —NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association this week sent a letter to President Joe Biden requesting a public comment period on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) proposed vaccine mandate.
President Biden announced new COVID vaccine mandates on September 9, 2021, with the goal of ensuring 100 million unvaccinated Americans get vaccinated. The order requires employers with more than 100 employees to either mandate their employees be vaccinated or conduct weekly testing of unvaccinated employees. The President also ordered that all federal contractors working on federal property be vaccinated, with no option for testing.
Under the temporary emergency standard, OSHA will be allowed to enact a rule immediately if “workers are in grave danger due to exposure to toxic substances or agents determined to be toxic or physically harmful or to new hazards.” Due to the emergency procedures under which the rule is being drafted, OSHA has stated that there will be no public comment period for the proposed rule.
“NATE surveyed our members to determine how contractors believe vaccine mandates would impact their respective small businesses, and it is clear that the Association’s members have serious concerns about this pending rule,” said Todd Washam, NATE Director of Government Relations and Wireless Industry Network. “We urge President Biden and OSHA to open a public comment period so the administration can hear directly from NATE’s small business members and gain a better understanding of how vaccine mandates would impact their workforce and the country’s ambitious 5G and broadband deployment goals.”
Read NATE’s letter to President Biden HERE.
For more information on NATE, visit www.natehome.com.
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About NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association
NATE: The Communications Infrastructure Contractors Association is a non-profit trade association dedicated to providing a unified voice for companies in the diverse tower and communications infrastructure construction, service and maintenance industries. Today the Association boasts over 1,000 member companies located throughout the United States, Bahamas, Canada, China, Ghana, Israel, Jamaica, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Trinidad and the United Kingdom. For additional information on NATE, please visit www.natehome.com.
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