ASAToday for July 3rd, 2025

EEOC Issues COVID-19 Vaccine Guidance for Employers The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued new COVID-19 vaccine guidance for employers. The new guidance addresses topics the EEOC either left unclear or did not expressly resolve in earlier publications. Information about an employee’s vaccination status is considered “confidential medical information” under the Americans with…

Senate Infrastructure Talks Continue… President Biden and Sen. Capito (R-WV) met again on Tuesday to discuss infrastructure.  President Biden previously rejected Senate Republicans’ $928 billion infrastructure offer, which had $257 billion of new net spending. The President had dropped his $2.25 trillion infrastructure plan to $1.7 trillion in new spending.  Sen. Romney (R-UT) said he…

House Earmarks to Be Included in the Surface Transportation Bill The House Democrats attached 1,473 earmark requests to surface transportation reauthorization legislation.  The earmarks will be included in the $547 billion highway bill to be considered on Wednesday by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.  It will include 1,067 earmark projects from Democrats, 403 from…