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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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Last week, nearly 50 member company CFOs and other senior accounting professionals attended the AGC Financial Issues Committee (FIC) Winter Meeting in Florida. Committee members were brought up to speed on FASB standards and IRS regulations, including recent tax court rulings by means of a tax… Read More
January 15, 2015
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently released a new policy memo on using numeric effluent limits in stormwater permits in areas with pollutant-impaired waters (to reduce pollutant discharges and address water-quality impairments). AGC is encouraged that EPA has, once again,… Read More
January 9, 2015
Today, marking one of the first legislative actions of the new Congress, the House passed H.R. 30, the Saving American Workers Act of 2015, by a bipartisan vote of 252-172. Twelve Democrats crossed party lines and supported the bill. The bill would repeal the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) definition… Read More
January 9, 2015
As the price of gas continues to drop at the pump and the Highway Trust Fund once again approaches a zero balance, the idea of increasing the gas tax is circulating the halls of Congress. Several members of Congress made news this week by not dismissing a gas tax increase as one of the potential… Read More
January 9, 2015
www.HardhatsforHighways.org
With gas taxes making news in Washington this week, now is a great time to contact your representative and ask them to sign on to a bipartisan letter in support of needed transportation funding currently being circulated in the House.
The letter, authored by… Read More
January 9, 2015
Construction employers added 48,000 jobs in December and 290,000 for the year, the largest annual increase since 2005, as the sector's unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent, according to an analysis by AGC of America. Association officials said many firms are expanding payrolls to keep pace with… Read More
January 9, 2015
As 2015 begins, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is sharpening its emphasis on inspecting and citing employers who violate its recordkeeping standard. This takes on greater importance because of the changes and new reporting requirements that became effective on January 1,… Read More
January 8, 2015
On Jan. 5, AGC submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) regarding its proposed rule requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to annually report summary compensation data using a new Equal Pay Report. OFCCP originally… Read More
January 8, 2015
The new 114th Congress convened on Tuesday with already one vacant seat in the House of Representatives headed to special election. Despite Rep. Michael Grimm (R) saying he would not resign his seat after pleading guilty to one count of tax evasion in December, the man who scored a resounding 53-… Read More
January 8, 2015
McConnell Takes the Gavel as Senate Majority Leader
The 114th Congress convened this week with Republicans controlling both chambers for the first time in eight years. The first order of business in the House of Representatives was to re-elect John Boehner (R-Ohio), who overcame a small challenge… Read More
January 8, 2015