Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) doesn’t have nearly enough workplace safety inspectors to enforce COVID-19 vaccine mandate, relying on employees.
Amid an uneven economic recovery and the pandemic, many workers are reluctant to go back to jobs, making them a prized resource and an endangered species.
Employees lose jobs because they won't get vaccinated against COVID-19, and receiving unemployment benefits depends on the reason the worker was fired and locale.
One in two U.S. workers (47% of all workers, 50% of Black workers, and 52% of Latinx workers) have been unfairly or arbitrarily fired at some point in their lives.