Bloomberg Law | August 20, 2021
“A private business is absolutely entitled to set the conditions for a safe workplace. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s under an emergency use authorization or it’s fully licensed,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University.
And with lawsuits, “we’ll see a lot of them until mandates become the norm. And they are rapidly becoming the norm,” Gostin said. “Every day another shoe drops, there’s another mandate in place.”