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Spotlight Your Achievements! AGC Launches Awards Season with the Opening of Build America, AGC in the Community, Innovation, Diversity and Inclusion Awards
July 15, 2024
Apply by Thursday, October 31, 2024!  AGC of America is proud to announce the launch of the 2025 AGC Awards competitions! The Baldwin Group Build America Awards (including the Marvin M. Black Partnering Excellence category) and AGC in the Community competitions recognize the nation's most… Read More

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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Raising the Profile of Worksite Enforcement
This week the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is expected to issue guidelines to field offices that will instruct agents to step up worksite enforcement with greater focus on the employers who hire illegal immigrants.  Though illegal workers would still be detained, ICE is expected… Read More
April 30, 2009
Federal Agencies Issue COBRA Subsidy Guidance and Model Notices
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently provided guidance to employers in response to questions about the interpretation of the premium assistance subsidy for continuation coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA).  This subsidy was established as a part of the… Read More
April 29, 2009
New I-9 Form in Effect
Beginning on Friday, April 3, 2009, employers were required to start using the new I-9 form to verify the employment eligibility of newly hired employees and employees with expiring employment authorizations, according to the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Citizenship and Immigration… Read More
April 29, 2009
HR Professionals Conference and Training and Development Conference Will Be Held Concurrently
October 28-29, Atlanta, Ga. Planning is underway for two of AGC's most sought-after annual conferences: the HR Professionals Conference and the Training & Development (T&D) Conference.  For 2009, both conferences will be held concurrently, October 28 - 29, in Atlanta, Georgia, with some… Read More
April 29, 2009
1997 AIA Documents Expire May 31, Make the Switch to ConsensusDOCS
After May 31, the 1997 A-series documents (including the AIA A-201-1997) will no longer be available and users of AIA's contract documents software will not be able to generate licensed final versions of those documents.  When AIA released its 2007 suite of A-series contract documents in November… Read More
April 29, 2009
How to Get Owners to Use ConsensusDOCS Contract Documents
In response to inquiries we received regarding how to get construction project owners to use ConsensusDOCS standard contract documents, we developed the "Top Ten Reasons Owners Should Use ConsensusDOCS" brochure.  Please feel free to distribute this electronic brochure to all owners with whom you… Read More
April 29, 2009
AGC Specialty Contractors Assemble at AGC Annual Convention
At the Specialty Contractors Council meeting Wednesday, March 4, Chair Doug Isaacs welcomed the SCC to San Diego and introduced Jim Slack as the incoming chair of the SCC.  Isaacs reviewed the activities of the SCC over the past year, including its research regarding retention, the upcoming… Read More
April 29, 2009
Do You Do Airport Work? Then You Should Attend the Airport Project Delivery Systems Summit
AGC of America is a proud cosponsor of the 4th Annual Airport Project Delivery Systems Summit on June 3-4, 2009 in Savannah, Georgia.  If you are involved in airport construction, you won't want to miss this important event, presented by AGC of America, Airports Council International-NA, and the… Read More
April 29, 2009
State Construction Employment - March
State unemployment rates were nearly all higher in March," the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on April 17, as 46 states recorded over-the-month unemployment rate increases, North Dakota and the District of Columbia registered decreases, and Georgia, New York and Rhode Island had no… Read More
April 29, 2009
1st-quarter structures investment tumbles; price indexes sink; hotel 'pipeline' shrinks
Real (net of inflation) gross domestic product (GDP) tumbled 6.1% in the first quarter at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, following a 6.3% decline in the fourth quarter of 2008, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported today. Real investment in "nonresidential structures decreased 44%, compared… Read More
April 29, 2009

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