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Vaccine Mandate Update – November 2, 2021 This article is from our friends at SESCO Management Consultants, ASA’s Human Resource partner.  For more information about SESCO and all of the incredible benefits available through your ASA membership, please click here.   Private Employers with 100 or More Employees As we previously reported, President Biden has…

OSHA to Announce COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard Rulemaking Per Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OSHA is expected to announce their rule very soon. This rule will likely require all employers with 100+ employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative…

18 States File Three Separate Lawsuits Against the Federal COVID-19 Employee Vaccine Mandate Eighteen states filed three separate lawsuits Friday to stop President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, arguing that the requirement violates federal law.  Attorneys general from Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming…

White House Updates Federal Vaccine Requirements for Contractors On Tuesday, November 2, 2021, the White House Safe Federal Workforce Task Force updated their FAQs for contractors: https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/faq/contractors/. Per the FAQs: It now includes additions to address vaccination and safety protocols, scope and applicability of the guidelines, and compliance. The updated guidance for contractors adds a…

Update: Budget Reconciliation Bill Negotiators are making progress on the last few issues before reaching a final agreement on the package, but a handful of centrist members may prevent a House vote this week. Yesterday in a letter to Speaker Pelosi, five moderate members of the Blue Dog Coalition (co-chairs Case (HI) and Murphy (FL)…

This Week in Congress This week was crunch time as Democrats in the House, Senate, and the White House face the October 31st deadline of determining the final cost of President Biden’s “Build Back Better” social safety net spending package.  An agreement could allow the House to pass a separate, $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill.…

Update: Budget Reconciliation Bill Democrats are feverishly working on a $1.75 to $2 trillion budget reconciliation package to be passed before October 31st.  On Sunday morning, President Biden met with Senate Majority Leader Schumer and Senator Machin at the President’s Delaware home. The meeting emphasized the urgency to find an agreement before Biden leaves for…

ASA Rejects Grantor Trust and Valuation Rules in the Build Back Better Act With all the attention on “Billionaire Taxes,” we at ASA are concerned that two top issues for our ASA membership, the proposed changes to grantor trust and the changes to valuation rules, might not receive the attention they deserve.  For family businesses,…

ASA Requests Delay of President Biden’s COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors This week, ASA, along with the Construction Industry Procurement Coalition (CIPC), sent a letter to the White House’s Coronavirus Response Coordinator & Counselor to the President of the United States, Jeffrey Zients, requesting a delay in the implementation of the Executive Order (E.O.)…

Challenges to the Employee Vaccine Mandates Continue… On Tuesday, October 26th, Bloomberg News reported that “the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is emerging as the most likely industry group to join the horde of GOP state attorneys general and conservative interest groups that are likely to sue to block OSHA’s the emergency temporary standard…