Plain Talk: How are North Dakota's businesses handling vaccine mandate uncertainty?

4G1A0097 (1).jpg — Carl Young, of Bismarck, places flags to memorialize North Dakotans who have died with COVID-19 while demonstrators attend a rally against vaccine mandates Monday, Nov. 8, 2021, outside the state Capitol. Kyle Martin / The Forum

Opinion by Rob Port

December 01, 2021 at 10:38 AM

Vaccine mandate policies are a fluid situation right now.

They're being challenged in the courts.

The federal government is tweaking its policies.

In North Dakota, during the recent special session of the Legislature, a bill passed that doesn't ban businesses from implementing vaccine mandates, but did implement a lot of policies dictating what those mandates should look like.

The Greater North Dakota Chamber of Commerce opposed that bill. Arik Spencer, president and CEO of that organization, joined this episode of Plain Talk to talk about how the state's businesses are handling all of this uncertainty.

Also, Rob and co-host Chad Oban talk about Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's recent comments about electric cars.

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Opinion by Rob Port

Rob Port is a news reporter, columnist, and podcast host for the Forum News Service with an extensive background in investigations and public records. He covers politics and government in North Dakota and the upper Midwest. Reach him at rport@forumcomm.com. Click here to subscribe to his Plain Talk podcast.