Tag: vaccine

December 20, 2021

Jen L’Estrange, a strategic human resources and workforce consultant, has seen a pattern among her clients’ vaccinated and unvaccinated employees. Vaccinated employees, she said, don’t understand why someone wouldn’t want to get vaccinated in the interest of public health. Meanwhile, […]

October 21, 2021

On Oct. 11, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order limiting vaccine mandates, even for private employers. This flies in the face of President Joe Biden’s September announcement that all large employers must require their employees to be vaccinated […]

October 20, 2021

ENR readers appear to be slightly more likely than other Americans to be vaccinated against COVID-19, but less likely to agree with President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates for large firms, federal contractors and U.S. government employees. The results of a […]

September 23, 2021

With 46% of construction workers claiming they will not get vaccinated for Covid-19, President Joe Biden’s Sept. 9 executive order requiring vaccines for all federal contractors and for companies with more than 100 employees has become a concern for the […]

September 20, 2021

Since President Joe Biden issued plans to mandate vaccines in some workplaces earlier this month, a number of construction companies are encouraging their employees to get vaccinated and are trying to figure out what the new rules mean for their […]

August 24, 2021

Construction was supposed to be getting back to normal by now. In June, with vaccines rolling out broadly across the U.S. and COVID-19 case numbers plummeting, Labor Day was heralded by many as the date workers would return to offices, […]

May 18, 2021

OSHA has been issuing guidance to employers on how to keep their workers safe since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the federal safety agency only recently submitted its draft of an emergency temporary standard to President Joe Biden’s […]

April 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many changes in the way contractors do business. They have reevaluated and introduced new safety protocols, reorganized work schedules to accommodate social distancing and sent many administrative employees home to do their jobs. “Strangely enough, […]

December 2, 2020

Brian Turmail, vice president of public affairs at the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), which advocates on behalf of the construction industry, said in an email he wasn’t concerned with a lack of a specific mention of construction as […]