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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 Support Staff Wages Reported to Rise by 3.4%
According to the latest Contractor Compensation Quarterly (CCQ) published by PAS, Inc., construction support staff wages are to rise by an average 3.6%. The prediction is based on data gathered from over 199 companies in the 18th edition of PAS’s Construction Support Staff Salary Survey. This is… Read More
January 20, 2022
NEXT WEEK: Two Part Webinar Series: Implementation of the $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
January 25 and 27, 2022 Register here for an AGC and FMI hosted two-part webinar series on the implementation of the historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law) and how it will affect the 2022 highway, transportation, utility, and direct… Read More
January 20, 2022
DOL Issues Memorandum on Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors
On January 13, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division published Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) No. 2022-1 clarifying the requirements of Executive Order (EO) 14026 that increases the hourly minimum wage for certain federal contractors to $15 effective January 30, 2022. The FAB… Read More
January 20, 2022
AGC Supported Brief Opposes NLRB Expansion of Remedies
AGC, in conjunction with the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) and four fellow CDW-member trade associations, submitted an amicus brief with the National Labor Relations Board in a case that could result in broader remedies for unlawfully discharged employees.  The Board invited… Read More
January 20, 2022
2021 Collective Bargaining Normalizes Increases Back to 2019 Levels
Construction-industry collective bargaining negotiations completed in 2021 resulted in an average first-year increase in wages and fringe benefits of 3.0 percent or $1.74, according to the annual year-end Settlements Report recently released by the AGC-supported Construction Labor Research… Read More
January 20, 2022
Federal Contractor Vaccination Mandate on Hold
The federal contractor vaccination mandate remains on hold since the December 17, 2021, decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to maintain a nationwide stay (or freeze) of the mandate until—potentially—as late as April 2022. During the week of January 10, 2022, AGC engaged… Read More
January 20, 2022
AGC Opposes NLRB Expansion of Damages
AGC, in conjunction with the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) and four fellow CDW-member trade associations, submitted an amicus brief with the National Labor Relations Board in a case that could result in broader remedies for unlawfully discharged employees.  The Board invited… Read More
January 19, 2022
Supreme Court Strikes Down OSHA's Vaccine ETS
Six-Step Priority List for Employers The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 13 blocked OSHA’s COVID vaccine-or-testing emergency temporary standard (ETS) from being enforced for the foreseeable future, meaning your compliance to-do list has gotten significantly shorter – but it has by no means disappeared… Read More
January 18, 2022
Construction Officials Say Biden Administration’s Plan to Double Tariffs on Canadian Lumber
  Prices of construction materials jumped nearly 20 percent in 2021 despite moderating in December, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of government data released today. Association officials said contractors rate materials costs as a top concern for… Read More
January 14, 2022
Supreme Court Freezes OSHA COVID-19 Vaccination-or Testing ETS
AGC to Continue with Litigation on the Merits of the ETS On January 13, the Supreme Court reinstated the nationwide stay on implementation and enforcement of the OSHA COVID-19 vaccination-or-testing emergency temporary standard (ETS). As a result of this decision, OSHA will have to suspend its… Read More
January 13, 2022

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