They have no choice. If anyone really cares about jobs, they will want businesses to have that protection as well.
The question is will it be a blanket immunity? What if a business makes zero effort at all at doing anything to protect its employees and clients? Then what? I am guessing they will make the threshold very high to bring suit, as you state.
The Dems will have to give in on some sort of immunity, as they badly need state and city funding in return from Trump and R's. The battle will be over how to separate needs forged by COVID, versus just piss poor book management of decade long, pie in the sky, promise making on things like public pensions.
The other issue is how do the two sides handle the expiration of the federal UC $600 in the CARES Act that expires July 31?
Are they really going to make peeps take a $2500+ loss a month based on an arbitrary date? One would think not. A better approach would be to tie it to unemployment rates in the state (or better, county) and stair step it down as things improve but with a proviso that people cant earn the same amount (or more) on UC.
Then you have a second stimulus check which needs to be negotiated out but seems like a certainty.
Quite a laundry list to sort out. Yeah, I am sure this is going to go smoothly. lol