Biden’s COVID-19 Response Eroded Civil Liberties: Mandates, School Closures, and Overreach Defined An Administration That Doubled Down On Failed Policies; Maybourne Beverly Hills Luxury Resort Fined $4.4 Million for Hotel’s Failure to Rehire Employees Who Were Laid Off During the COVID-19 Pandemic, and other C-Virus related stories
Biden’s COVID-19 Response Eroded Civil Liberties:
Mandates, school closures, and overreach defined an administration that doubled down on failed policies.
When Joe Biden was sworn in as president in January 2021, he had good reason to be optimistic about the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite being widely criticized for—and arguably losing his first reelection because of—the perceived insufficiencies of his coronavirus response, President Donald Trump had successfully overseen Operation Warp Speed. As a result of this public-private partnership, federal health officials were able to grant emergency authorization for COVID-19 vaccines by the end of 2020, a much faster than expected timetable. In the first few months of Biden’s presidency, millions of Americans got vaccinated and COVID-19 cases dropped rapidly.
The fantastic news was short-lived. Infection numbers began to climb again in the summer of 2021 with the rise of the delta variant. While health officials had initially suggested that the vaccines would prevent infection—a claim also repeated by Biden himself—it turned out that they offered limited protection in this regard. More Americans died of COVID-19 during Biden’s first year in office than Trump’s last.
How did Biden respond to these problems? By doubling down on the most intrusive and least justified pandemic prevention policies: mandates and lockdowns. These policies proved incredibly ineffective at stopping COVID-19.
In September 2021, Biden declared a national vaccine mandate—not just for federal workers, but for 80 million employees of private companies as well. Despite having personally assured Americans that he would not require them to get vaccinated if he was elected president, Biden left employees of businesses that employed more than 100 people no choice but to comply. He did not seek approval from Congress. Rather, Biden simply declared that he already possessed the power to impose a vaccine mandate under workplace safety laws. His own press secretary, Jen Psaki, had previously declared that the administration believed such a mandate is “not the role of the federal government”; Biden apparently changed his mind. Weeks later, the Supreme Court struck down the mandate, declaring it an unconstitutional overreach. —>READ MORE HERE
Maybourne Beverly Hills Luxury Resort Fined $4.4 Million for Hotel’s Failure to Rehire Employees Who Were Laid Off During the COVID-19 Pandemic:
The Maybourne Beverly Hills, a luxury resort, has been fined $4.4 million by the Labor beverlyCommissioner’s Office (LCO) for violating California’s Worker Recall Law. The LCO, which operates under the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), issued the fine in response to the hotel’s failure to rehire employees who were laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic.
An LCO investigation launched in November 2022 found that the Maybourne Beverly Hills hotel failed to comply with the state law requiring hospitality employers to prioritize offering available positions to workers displaced by the pandemic. The violations impacted several long-serving employees, some of whom had dedicated up to a decade of service to the hotel.
What California Labor Commissioner Lilia García-Brower said: “It’s unacceptable for a business, especially an opulent luxury resort like the Maybourne Beverly Hills, who has benefited from loyal hardworking employees, to disregard the Worker Recall Law and deny long-serving workers their rightful opportunity to return to their jobs.”
The investigation, which was initiated based on reports of potential violations, revealed that when the Maybourne Beverly Hills reopened in 2021, newly hired workers replaced longstanding servers in direct violation of the California’s Worker Recall Statute (Labor Code Section 2810.8). The estimated violations sought by LCO total $4,425,419 in damages and interest affecting 12 employees. —>READ MORE HERE
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