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New Survey Shows How Nation’s Failure To Invest In Construction Education & Training Programs Makes It Hard For Firms To Build
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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Take Action Today to Fix the Highway Trust Fund
Visit HardhatsforHighways.org to Contact Your Elected Officials Following the midterm elections on Nov. 4, the 113th Congress will reconvene to take final action on a number of legislative items that must be addressed before its adjournment. While Congress passed an extension providing funding… Read More
October 17, 2014
HOTEL SELLING OUT--Register Today for Highway & Utilities Contractors Issues Conference
Book your Hotel – Conference Rate Expires Next Week Construction Future will be the overriding topic at the 2014 Highway & Utilities Contractors Conference on Nov. 13-15 at the Omni La Costa resort in San Diego, Calif. A variety of sessions have been organized to cover topics that will help… Read More
October 16, 2014
Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure
The nation has an estimated need of between $400 and $600 billion over the next 20 years for safe drinking water and wastewater treatment infrastructure. One of the primary sources of federal funding for drinking water and waste water infrastructure are the highly successful, but chronically… Read More
October 15, 2014
Secondary Employer’s Trespass & Nuisance Claims Against Union Are Not Preempted by Federal Labor Law
A shopping mall owner may bring state law claims for trespass and nuisance against a union that waged an unruly protest against a mall tenant’s use of nonunion subcontractors, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (AK, AZ, CA, ID, MT, NV, OR, WA, HI, Guam) has held.  The court rejected… Read More
October 14, 2014
AGC Offers New Construction-Focused Anti-Harassment DVD and Webinar
AGC is excited to announce the release of a new anti-harassment DVD called Diversity Rules: Harassment Prevention, Sensitivity & Correction Training for Construction Workers and Supervisors (“Diversity Rules”).   Diversity Rules is one DVD with two training videos designed to aid construction… Read More
October 13, 2014
New VETS-4212 Report Replaces VETS-100
On Sept. 25, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) published a final rule that impacts federal contractors and subcontractors that hire and employ veterans under provisions of the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (VEVRAA).  The… Read More
October 13, 2014
Guidance Issued for Locating Missing Participants in Terminated Defined Contribution Plans
The Employment Retirement Income Security Act requires plan fiduciaries to make reasonable efforts to locate missing participants or beneficiaries so that they may direct the distribution of their plan accounts. As a result, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (… Read More
October 13, 2014
Final Rule for Federal Contractor Minimum Wage
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) released its final rule implementing Executive Order 13658 (EO), which establishes a minimum wage of $10.10 per hour for direct federal prime contractors and subcontractors at all tiers. That $10.10 minimum wage must be adjusted annually… Read More
October 6, 2014
Year-to-Date Collective Bargaining Yields Average First-Year Increase of 2.3 Percent
The AGC-supported Construction Labor Research Council (CLRC) has released its second report of the year on collective bargaining settlements in the industry.  Settlements reported between January and September 2014 resulted in an average first-year wage-and-benefit increase of 2.3 percent or $1.14… Read More
October 3, 2014
OFCCP Joins EEOC in Considering Gender Identity Discrimination Part of Sex Discrimination
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has issued a new directive to provide guidance on the agency’s approach to employment discrimination on the basis of gender identity or transgender status.  In Directive 2014-02, OFCCP clarifies that it considers… Read More
October 3, 2014

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