House passes bill to fine employers $50K for mandating COVID-19 vaccines
If House Bill 87 becomes law, employers who violate the ban could face fines of up to $50,000. The Louisiana state House has approved a bill by Rep. Michael Echols, R-Monroe, which would fine employers $50,000 for mandating the COVID-19 vaccine for hospitals, public agencies, and other employers for enforcing mask mandates as a way to prevent the spread of the virus. The bill also includes an exception for certain hospitals, nursing facilities, prisons, doctors’ offices, and licensed emergency medical responders. The proposal still requires approval from the Senate. Echol called the bill a "step back to logic and reason" based on three years of government overreach.
公開済み : 2ヶ月前 沿って Meghan Friedmann の Politics Health
Hospitals, public agencies and other employers in Louisiana could face fines of up to $50,000 for mandating the COVID-19 vaccine, under a bill the state House endorsed in a 70-31 vote Wednesday.
House Bill 87, by Rep. Michael Echols, R-Monroe, also would bar many employers from enforcing mask mandates as a way to prevent the spread of COVID-19, though it lays out exceptions to that rule for hospitals, nursing facilities, prisons, doctors’ offices and licensed emergency medical responders.
The proposal still requires approval from the Senate.
“If you want to do business here, don’t pass these crazy mandates onto your employees,” Echols said Friday.
“This is a simple swing of the pendulum back to logic and reason based on three years of government overreach,” he added. Echols said he did not think businesses would see the law itself as government overreach.
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