美国相关的总承包商已向联邦监管机构写了两封信，包括one to Secretary of Labor Marty Walshexpressing concern that President Joe Biden's recently announced COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees of federal contractors and large employers could slow federal projects and exacerbate existing worker shortages.

The其他信件was sent to the White House Safer Federal Workforce Task Force that will draft guidance for Biden's行政命令为了确保为联邦承包商提供足够的协同安全协议，并向联邦收购法规委员会（Federal Accienition Consion Council）撰写，该法规将撰写法规以执行授权。

Biden's order also includes his request that the FAR council, the Workforce Task Force and the U.S. Dept. of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration develop new guidance by a Sept. 24 deadline that includes a vaccine mandate, or weekly testing, for all employees of companies with 100 or more workers. Both letters express concern over issues surrounding liability for testing and enforcement under such a mandate and the effect such a mandate could have on the worker shortage in construction.

其首席执行官斯蒂芬·桑德尔（Stephen Sandherr）在信中写道：“自从大流行以来，AGC及其成员一直在努力确保最大的建筑行业资产的安全和健康：超过700万员工。”“随着COVID-19疫苗的可用，AGC为其成员提供了有关疫苗，安全性和效力的资源。此外，该协会创建了特定于行业的公共服务信息，协助雇主疫苗政策的工具等等。。”

致工作组和远方理事会的信表示，联邦承包商雇员的疫苗任务可以加剧建筑部门的劳动力短缺，并大大增加联邦项目成本，并延迟满足联邦政府基础设施的需求。18luck.cub

“ COVID-19大流行对建筑业及其市场造成了巨大损失。该病毒的三角洲变体具有面临重新经济不确定性和艰辛的绝大多数建筑公司。AGC引用它自己的研究从8月起，有89％的建筑承包商很难找到工艺工人，有88％的公司正在经历项目延迟，而93％的公司受到材料价格上涨的影响。

AGC's letter to the FAR Council laments that despite its own efforts, and those of other industry groups and member firms, to promote or incentivize voluntary vaccination of construction workers, vaccines continues to face skepticism. An April 2021 study by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University found that 46% of construction workers did not plan to get vaccinated.

“As such, AGC members justifiably fear that many of those workers, when faced with the choice between the vaccine and their job with a federal contractor, will quit and go to work for another contractor that does not have such a mandate,” says the letter. “Because the vast majority of the construction industry is comprised of small businesses of fewer than 100 employees, and so many firms are looking for workers, those workers could very well go elsewhere and avoid both this federal contractor mandate and the testing mandate" being put into effect for large employers by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.”

It further asked the FAR Council and the Task Force to consider exempting federal construction that mainly occurs outdoors, where most work can be performed with a lower risk of spreading COVID-19. The letter to Walsh and Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor James Frederick warns that broadly applying an ETS from OSHA, as proposed by Biden's executive order, to all construction activities could impede the goal of increasing vaccination rates and could lead to significant supply chain delays for testing that could undermine efforts to protect those who are ineligible for vaccines.

此外，AGC在这两封信中都要求对分包商合规性负责的主要承包商，也不要让分包商承担对自己的下层分包商遵守授权的责任，并推测这种要求可能违反联邦和州的医疗信息隐私法律，如果主要承包商继续对子公司和层承包商在现场接种疫苗的责任负责。AGC还希望监管机构建立一个美国机构，例如OSHA，以收集联邦承包商雇员的疫苗接种披露，从主要承包商和分包商那里收集。公司将直接向该机构进行“详细的合规性披露”，并对他们“完全负责”，这两个信件都表示。

该集团还为承包商疫苗合规性要求为合同的合规性授权为75天的宽限期。

根据AGC致工作组和远处理事会的信，Biden命令现在指示远处的理事会修改“收购规则”，并开始在10月15日或之后，包括适用于新合同，续签和选择期权的疫苗要求。。

本文于9月20日更新，以包括AGC致劳工部长沃尔什（Walsh）和代理助理秘书弗雷德里克（Frederick）的信息，日期为2021年9月18日。