The Biden administration’s ramped-up effort to combat the Covid-19 pandemic tasks the U.S. Labor Department with writing a regulation that would force tens of millions of more workers to get vaccinated—or produce weekly negative test results—a move that will test the agency’s power and could draw a legal challenge.
The Labor Department will issue a regulation requiring companies with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforces are either “fully vaccinated” or test negative for Covid-19 at least once a week, the White House announced Thursday. Although the agency’s ability to meet legal thresholds necessary for such a forceful intervention ...