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2024 AGC & HCSS Highway Work Zone Safety Survey
May 23, 2024
  Sixty-four percent of highway contractors report that motor vehicles had crashed into their construction work zones during the past year, putting motorists and workers at risk, according to the results of a new highway work zone study conducted by the Associated General Contractors of… Read More

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Construction Employers Add 228,000 Jobs Over the Year Despite Dip in March; Industry Unemployment Rate of 7.4 Percent is Lowest Ever for the Month
Construction employment increased by 228,000 jobs over the past year despite a weather-related dip last month, and the industry’s unemployment rate fell to 7.4 percent, the lowest yet for March, according to an analysis of new government data by the Associated General Contractors of America.… Read More
April 6, 2018
OFCCP Lowers VEVRAA Hiring Brnchmark
On March 30, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) hiring benchmark for 2018. Effective March 31, 2018, the hiring benchmark will be 6.4 percent, down from 6.7 percent in… Read More
April 6, 2018
DOL Activates Pilot Wage Violation Self-Reporting Program; Releases Supplemental Details
On April 3, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) began officially accepting applications for the Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID) program and provided supplemental information about participation on the program’s website.  The PAID program… Read More
April 6, 2018
Court Rules Use of "Segal Blend" Method to Calculate Withdrawal Liability was "Mistake"
The use of the “Segal Blend” interest assumption to calculate a withdrawing company’s multiemployer pension liability was a “mistake” and unsupported by the record, according to the decision in The New York Times Co. v. Newspapers & Mail Deliverers’-Publishers’ Pension Fund, No. 1:17-cv-… Read More
April 5, 2018
Construction Employment Increases in 257 Metro Areas Between February 2017 & 2018 as Construction Firms Continue to Expand Amid Strong Demand
Construction employment increased in 257 out of 358 metro areas between February 2017 and February 2018, declined in 50 and stagnated in 51, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released today by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials said that the… Read More
April 5, 2018
Register Now for AGC's Construction Environmental Conference
Join us on September 12-13, 2018 in Crystal City, Virginia Are you ready for great discussions and learning something new at this year’s environmental conference?  Registration is open, so reserve your seat for the AGC’s 2018 Construction Environmental Conference returning to the DoubleTree… Read More
April 5, 2018
CRM in the World of Construction
Kara Tanek, GLY Construction, Inc “It used to take me 45 minutes to prepare for my meeting, now it takes me five!” “You’re getting rid of a spreadsheet? Revolutionary!” Since going live with our new customer relationship management (CRM) system, our firm recognizes that comments like these are… Read More
April 1, 2018
EPA Considers Permitting Discharges to Groundwater Under the Clean Water Act
AGC Seeks Input from Members on Potential Impact to Their Operations  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is accepting public comment until May 21 on several topics related to the question of whether the federal government should use the Clean Water Act (CWA) National Pollutant… Read More
March 27, 2018
Construction Employment Rises in 35 States and D.C. from February 2017 to February 2018; Industry Adds Jobs in 38 States Since January
Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs between February 2017 and February 2018, while 38 states added construction jobs between January and February, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data released today.… Read More
March 23, 2018
AGC Says Proposal Would Limit New Mitigation Banks, Drive Up Project Costs
AGC spoke out against proposed guidelines that would make establishing new mitigation banks more onerous.  The draft guidelines would make investment in mitigation less attractive and increase the cost of projects that rely on robust mitigation banks to comply with legal requirements and stay… Read More
March 16, 2018

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