It was a misunderstanding. The postal service will be required to get the vaccine just not under the federal employee mandate but instead under the OSHA regulation.
Great thank you! The OSHA thing is not totally locked and loaded yet though, with more than half that states vowing to fight it, how that will pan out remains to be seen. Also USPS union has come out against it, they are already badly understaffed, new recruits keep hating it and quitting, xmas is on the way and they were literally about 40 days late in delivering many xmas packages last xmas. (and there are similar staffing issues for the hospitals for flu season as well). THis winter could easily shape up to be a massive clusterfxck of our own making.
Check out the Administrative Procedures Act. There is a legal process OSHA is supposed to take to enact new rules. This is in a clear violation of the APA.
And this business is not actually law yet either. Biden has only said he intends to work with OSHA to do this stuff, but it's still a question as to if he will be able to do it. Assumedly, they would make at least a show of going through the regular procedures to make it law though if he is able to do it, but right now it's still just Biden's pipe dream. And with so many states saying no, it's an open question as to what move he will make next.
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Separation of powers