Small business group to sue the Obama administration over vaccine mandate

A conservative, small business advocacy group is preparing to sue the Administration over its vaccine requirement for employers with more than 100 workers.

The president announced last week that his administration will require businesses of a certain size to mandate among their employees or conduct weekly COVID-19 testing in an effort to stop the spread of virus and tasked the OSHA with writing and implementing the rule.

Alfredo Ortiz, CEO and president of the JCN Job Creators Network, said to Fox News Wednesday that President Biden's vaccine mandate on small businesses is unconstitutional and a major overreach of federal authority. To block the Biden Administration accountable and stand up for small businesses, Job Creators Network plans to file a lawsuit to hold the implementation of this order. On its website, the JCN places itself as the voice of small businesses in America.

We are filing this lawsuit with JCN small business members and it will be supported by Job Creators Network Foundation's new Legal Action Fund, Ortiz said.

The lawsuit is filed only after OSHA issues an emergency temporary standard ETS to enact the requirement.

Small businesses are already battling with a significant labor shortage and this order will add new barriers to finding and keeping employees, causing costly harm at the worst possible time, Ortiz said. The federal government doesn't have the power to require small businesses to carry out its national vaccine mandate. JCN's lawsuit intends to block this federal power grab. Elaine Parker, president of the Job Creators Network Foundation, said the JCNF Legal Action Fund is particularly needed now as governments expand their attacks against small businesses. There are more than 90,000 people hospitalized with the virus across the country, and every day there are 1,262 new deaths in the COVID - 19 category — a 10% increase compared to the last calendar week.

More than half the entire U.S. population have received both vaccine doses, while more than 60% have received at least the first dose.

In June, 99.5% of all COVID death deaths were that of unvaccinated people. There have been a total of 14,115 U.S. deaths as a result of breakthrough cases, or COVID - 19 cases where they occurred in vaccinated individuals, and 70% of those vaccinated individuals were older than 65. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC has noted that no COVID virus is 100% effective against the virus.

The CDC has also reported two serious yet rare side effects of the vaccine, anaphylaxis which can be treated immediately, and thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome TTS that occurred in seven out of 1 million women under 50 who received Johnson Johnson vaccine.