I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Friday, June 11th.

If you're going back to work in person after doing it from home during the pandemic,

or if you are an employer calling others back to

work, here are two news stories from the last day that probably caught your eye. One is from

Goldman Sachs here in New York. Did you see this? The New York Times reported they had a noon

deadline yesterday for all employees to disclose their vaccination status.

The Wall Street giant wasn't requiring people to get vaccinated, but it was requiring

them to disclose their status by noon yesterday.

The other story is from Methodist Hospital in Houston, where they suspended 178 workers for not being vaccinated.

The hospital is actually requiring vaccinations for its employees. They do have a religious

and medical exemption policy, but these 178 suspended employees did not get those exemptions.

They didn't qualify for whatever reasons.

Basically, everybody at that hospital, and I read they have 25,000 employees, has to get a shot

or get suspended and risk losing your job. You could see why all health care facilities

might want to be the first to require COVID vaccines for the workers, but many do not.

In fact, a shockingly large minority of frontline healthcare workers are declining vaccines.

That's been another story.

But this hospital in Houston as a facility is requiring them.

So there are two stories.

One workplace requiring vaccines, another requiring

at least disclosure of vaccination status. The question we will ask now is, what should

employers be doing about vaccine requirements or vaccine disclosures? And joining us to help talk

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