Archive for October 2021

New Address for Member Payments After October 12th! To those ASA members who mail their dues or other ASA National payments to the ASA P.O. Box in Baltimore, please note that the mailing address will be changing on October 12th. The payment processor we use is moving to Philadelphia. The new address is: American Subcontractors…

House Republicans Oppose OSHA Employer Vaccine Mandate Republican House lawmakers with oversight of OSHA are calling for the agency to suspend its work writing an emergency temporary standard that would require Covid-19 vaccinations or weekly testing for 80 million workers.  Per their letter to Labor Secretary Walsh, 23 House Republicans on the Education and Labor…

FAR Memo on President Biden’s EO on Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors and Subcontractors On October 1, 2021, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory (FAR) Council has issued a “Memorandum on Issuance of Agency Deviations to Implement Executive Order (EO) 14042”, the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors and subcontractors.  The memorandum highlights the goal of…

Upcoming ConsensusDocs Webinar: Price Escalation & Supply-Chain Disruption; Legal and Practical Remedies and Mitigation ASA invites its members to join ConsensusDocs on October 19th, 2021 at 2pm Eastern for the upcoming free webinar, “Price Escalation & Supply-Chain Disruption; Legal and Practical Remedies and Mitigation”. The industry is facing unprecedented price swings and supply shortages that…

OSHA’s New Heat Exposure Rule On September 21, 2021, OSHA announced efforts to address heat-related illnesses. Per OSHA, “while heat illness is largely preventable, and commonly under-reported, thousands of workers are sickened each year by workplace heat exposure.  Despite widespread under-reporting, 43 workers died from heat illness in 2019, and at least 2,410 others suffered…