Court suspends Biden's order to make business vaccines mandatory

The law would require that workers in private companies with more than 100 employees be entirely vaccinated against COVID-19 or be tested every week.

But the court found “serious statute and constitutional issues” with the rule, to be introduced in January.

The court said it was suspending the order and gave the Biden administration time until Monday to respond.

Five countries led by Republicans Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Utah, as well as private companies and religious groups, had filed legal complaints against the order.

They accused the president of overstepping his authority, reports the BBC, broadcast Clankosova.tv.

If implemented, the US fifth district appeals court's ruling would be a blow to the Biden administration's comprehensive measures to prolong the vaccine.

Biden says the order, which would cover more than two thirds of the country's workers, would set a national standard of security at work.

The president said employees in large companies would have to be vaccinated fully by 4 January, calling the <x0nd Street vaccine the only best way out of this pandemic”.

Many businesses in the United States already demand that their employees be vaccinated.