Let me explain it this way. The Federal government can only oversee things so far as the Federal government is concerned.
Unless the Federal government has a contract with a company, they can't mandate shit (well, that's how it should work).
But since OSHA is basically a Federal Regulatory arm of the government, the question arises if any and all companies that follow OSHA guidelines would have to be involved in the mandate, whether or not they were Federally contracted.
Today, the Courts rightly decided that the Federal government would be overstepping its bounds by demanding non-Federal-contracting companies comply with their mandates.
All of Healthcare, by contrast, is required to carry Medicare and Medicaid provisions, so they can't use the same logic as OSHA-regulated industries.
So now, Healthcare has to go through their own cases to figure out if the mandate is legal for them as well. As far as this court is concerned, Healthcare is always sucked in by the Federal Government, and so the mandate applies to them more rigidly than it would for industry. (You have to think in a frame of mind of limiting maximum damages to the grieving party. If the mandate goes out for people not federally contracted, and damages do occur, the court would be to blame for bad judgement, and all hell breaks loose Constitutionally.)
It appears others have already jumped on this and asked the 6th Circuit to fulfill an injunction on the Healthcare aspect of it as well, so it looks like we're gonna be coming back to settle this at a later date.
The courts did as they should in this case.
The only fear is in if they were too heavy-handed with their reasoning and provide Trojan Horse precedent in their statements for other adjacent cases, such as the Abortion cases on the docket.
Companies and Employers can still do whatever the hell they want.
If they demand you work in a tutu, then that's just the terms of working there.
But without this mandate going through, they'd be responsible for anyone getting ill after taking the shot in order to work there. They can't hide behind massa gubment anymore.
Of course that would still require people to needlessly die and for the court systems to actually process the cases and not bury them.
If you lost your job to it, then I don't know exactly how well off you're gonna be. They fired you when it seemed like they had no other option. If argued well, and before an incompassionate judge, you're probably not gonna get diddly squat. That comes to a case-by-case basis, because what was said by each individual before separation of employment varies. Some will have better claims than others. If you said "yes I'll get it" and then didn't compared to just flatly saying "no, I won't get it" as well as just ignoring any and all requests and doing nothing at all -- all those instances will vary what standing you have to sue.
It's a crazy situation, and I don't think it's ever happened on this scale before. Class actions could come into play, but don't hold your breath.