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Millions of workers whose jobs don’t provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and their paycheck as the omicron variant of COVID-19 rages across the nation.

As the raging omicron variant of COVID-19 infects workers across the nation, millions of those whose jobs dont provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and their paycheck.  

As the raging omicron variant of COVID-19 infects workers across the nation, millions of those whose jobs don’t provide paid sick days are having to

As the raging omicron variant of COVID-19 infects workers across the nation, millions of those whose jobs don't provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and their paycheck.

As the raging omicron variant of COVID-19 infects workers across the nation, millions of those whose jobs don’t provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and their paycheck.

As the raging omicron variant of COVID-19 infects workers across the nation, millions of those whose jobs dont provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and their paycheck.  

19 dead, including 9 children, in NYC apartment fire

Rule faces uncertainty amid legal battles, shifting deadlines and rising COVID case counts.

Amazon told workers that it changed the mask policy “in response to the rapid spread of the Covid-19 Omicron variant,” and it hoped the mandate would be necessary only in the winter.

The orders from the Biden administration in November had seemed clear -- large employers were to get their workers fully vaccinated by early next year, or make sure the workers were tested weekly. But a little more than a month later, the Labor Department's vaccine rule has been swept into confusion and uncertainty by legal battles, shifting deadlines and rising covid case counts that throw the very definition of fully vaccinated into question.