Other “Mandates” Greg Abbott Might Want To Ban
Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas, has decided to prohibit all businesses in the state of Texas from requiring their employees to be vaccinated. He said that the Federal Government was bullying private institutions into “mandating” the vaccine. Presumably, Abbott felt left out and decided he couldn’t leave the bullying to the feds. So the State of Texas is getting in on the act by bullying business owners who want to require their employees to be vaccinated – which is their right under the First Amendment.
Since Greg Abbott has decided that companies ought not to have any say in what their employees do, I wanted to suggest some other “mandates” he might want to ban.
In Texas, no company will be permitted to:
Require drug testing.
Require a state of sobriety.
Prescribe a particular dress uniform.
Require particular salutations in the performance of an employee’s duties.
Require proof of licensure for job-specific functions like operating heavy equipment.
Require employees to undergo any training program.
Require proof of work eligibility/citizenship.
Require the physical presence of an employee at a particular place at a particular time.
Require that employees do specific tasks.
When we have banned all of these draconian policies, then Texans will be free from the tyrannical rule of their employers. (In large part due to their employs folding or leaving the state, but we can’t let the facts get in the way of a good narrative.)
Employers get to dictate certain things to their employees. That’s why they pay them. If someone doesn’t like the policies of a particular company, they are free to work elsewhere.
Freedom of association is in the constitution. Freedom of whatever-gets-me-out-of-taking-the-vaccine isn’t.
P.S. The word “mandate” implies coercive government force so any requirement to get the vaccine that isn’t propagated by the government isn’t a mandate, strictly speaking. It’s a semantic issue but someone ought to stick up for the language.