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August 26, 2024
AGC & Arcoro Workforce Survey
94 Percent of Construction Firms Report Having a Hard Time Finding Workers to Hire, Undermining Efforts to Build Infrastructure & Other Projects As Industry Calls for Better Federal Workforce Policies
The nation’s failure to invest in construction… Read More
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According to the latest Contractor Compensation Quarterly (CCQ) published by PAS, Inc., contractors are projecting 2020 construction staff wages to increase an average of 3.55% (excludes 0% projections), reported by over 300 companies in the 38th edition of the Construction / Construction… Read More
June 17, 2020
Employers May Need to Take Action
Courts have struggled to uniformly decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it unlawful for employers to discriminate because of a person’s “sex,” protects employees from discrimination based on their sexual orientation or transgender… Read More
June 17, 2020
This week AGC joined with construction employers and building trades union in support of multiemployer pension reform. The letter to congressional leaders urges Congress to include common sense pension reform for the nation’s troubled pension plans and to authorize a Composite Plan option for… Read More
June 11, 2020
Contains Q&A Section of Common Workplace Questions
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has again updated and expanded its technical assistance publication addressing questions arising under the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Laws related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The… Read More
June 11, 2020
Contains Q&A Section of Common Workplace Questions
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has again updated and expanded its technical assistance publication addressing questions arising under the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Laws related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The… Read More
June 11, 2020
Space is limited; Reserve your spot today
AGC is holding a virtual meeting for in-house environmental managers (IHEM) on July 13, 2020 in conjunction with the Construction Safety, Health and Environmental Virtual Conference (July 14-16, 2020). The IHEM meeting offers valuable peer-to-peer… Read More
June 10, 2020
The Trump Administration recently issued two executive orders (EO) that focus on supporting economic recovery during the pandemic and recovery that could bring opportunity for environmental regulatory relief as well as risk. The first, Executive Order on Regulatory Relief to Support Economic… Read More
June 10, 2020
On May 19, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a rule to establish consistent requirements and procedures for the issuance of guidance documents. AGC has raised concerns previously with the use of guidance documents as “back-door regulations.” EPA Administrator… Read More
June 10, 2020
During the last half of May 2020, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) issued four decisions upholding the legality of employer facially neutral work rules. Two of the decisions applied the Boeing standard to assess the legality of work rules or policies while the other… Read More
June 10, 2020
AGC’s Construction Safety, Health & Environmental Conference is the industry’s foremost annual conference to hone in on the most critical safety, health and environmental compliance and risk issues impacting the business of construction. As a leader in construction safety,… Read More
June 8, 2020