A U.S. appeals court has rejected a challenge by President Joe Biden and his administration on Friday and re-affirmed its decision to put on hold Biden’s order for companies with 100 workers or more to mandate COVID-19 vaccines. Biden’s rule was issued by the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), requiring businesses with 100 employees or more to require them to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4, 2022, or to be tested weekly and wear a mask. “The mandate is staggeringly overbroad,” the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said in its order on Friday. It ordered OSHA to “take no steps to implement or enforce the Mandate until further court order.” The court had on Nov. 6 issued a temporary halt to the mandate while litigation plays out over its legality. Despite this, the administration on Nov. 8 urged private business employers to comply with the vaccine mandate. It asserted that halting implementation of the OSHA rule …