Big names in Corporate America including Amazon.com Inc cheered U.S. President Joe Biden as he mandated employees either get vaccinated or be tested regularly, but some mid-sized companies worried that the plan would be tough to carry out and unpopular with a slice of their workers.
But some mid-sized companies worried about losing employees at a time when they are trying to grow business.
His 125-employee company builds equipment used to lay curbs and other concrete products. Business is strong, he said, citing four job vacancies on the factory floor. Bullock worries that the Biden mandate could prompt some workers to jump ship and join smaller companies not subject to the rule. "It is important that undue compliance costs do not burden manufacturers, large and small alike," President and CEO Jay Timmons said in a statement.
Jay Baker, president of Jamestown Plastics in Brocton, New York, offered a succinct assessment. "I think it's bullshit."
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