OSHA withdraws its workplace vaccine rule.

The Labor Department said on Tuesday that the Biden administration is withdrawing its requirement that large employers mandate vaccinations for workers.

After the Supreme Court blocked the emergency temporary standard, most employers and industry experts said it couldn't be revived.

The rule is dead because they admit what everyone had been saying, according to a lawyer.

The Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, did not have the authority to require workers to bevaccinated for coronaviruses, according to a Supreme Court decision.

The Labor Department's decision to withdraw the rule means that the legal proceedings will be dropped. The case was going back to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati for further consideration, but it was likely to be struck down by the Supreme Court.

David Michaels, a former OSHA administrator, said that OSHA could try to move a version of the vaccine-or-test standard forward through its official rule-making process, but that would likely face legal challenges.

Without the Labor Department's standard in effect, employers are subject to a patchwork of state and local laws on Covid-19 workplace safety, with places like New York City requiring vaccine mandates and other governments banning them.

The Labor Department wrote in the notice of its withdrawal thatOSHA continues to strongly encourage the vaccination of workers against the continuing dangers posed by Covid-19 in the workplace.