For employers with 100 or more workers the forced choice of a COVID-19 vaccine or weekly negative virus test in order to work, is not expected to sit well with many employees, especially people not vaccinated.

Youngstown is considering a vaccine mandate for it's 700 employees after Moderna receives FDA approval, but the city Law Director Jeff Limbian
expects people to legally challenge the President's authority over state and city employees, along with private businesses.

"A corporation is not subject a private entity to the restrictions of an executive order. I think it's beyond the scope of an executive order. The President is responsible for federal government workers and contractors," emphasized Attorney Limbian.

Limbian says it's up to Mayor Jamael Tito-Brown, and the city's elected leaders, who have authority, to put a mandate in place for city employees.

Phantom Fireworks say they're in sync with the president. The company's Vice President William Weimer said, "We've been very concerned about our team members, their family members, and our visitors. About two months ago we instituted a policy for unvaccinated workers to provide a negative COVID test once a week."

Weimer added,  "This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. We saw Ohio hit over 7800 new cases this morning, and we decided we were going to mandate a vaccine. A memo just went out to our employees after 5:00 p.m. today."

Many corporations such as Amtrak, Disney, United Airlines and others have mandated vaccination against COVID-19 to work.

Employers that don't comply could be fined up to $14,000 per violation by OSHA.

President Joe Biden did not give a time frame for when his Executive Order will take effect.

Challenges are also expected to be made over the tests, accuracy and having to provide results to employers.