AGC to Offer Educational Webinar on July 27th to Help Contractors Prepare

The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division recently published Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) No. 2023-2, Enforcement of Protections for Employees to Pump Breast Milk at Work.

Looking to tackle your biggest construction HR & workforce challenges? There's no better place than the Construction HR & Workforce Conference!

What if a project owner asks you about carbon reporting or the embodied carbon of materials? Preparing for these questions can take months or even longer—and can involve compliance, sustainability and even finance team members. Get a head start at AGC’s Construction Safety Health and Environmental Conference on July 25-27, 2023 in Nashville, Tenn. Learn about regulatory initiatives related to climate change policies, carbon reporting practices, the business case, documenting of emissions in materials, and related tools.

Four Things Employers Need to Know

AGC submitted its first set of comments on a Biden administration guidance implementing a new executive order that changes the process of developing regulations (Executive Order 14094 on Modernizing Regulatory Review). The new policy would limit the business community’s access to the administration during the inter-agency review process, while encouraging feedback from groups that ordinarily would not engage in the regulatory process. The policy effectively closes the door on the very entities that stand to bear the compliance cost of a proposed regulation. The executive order also raises the threshold of a significant regulatory action, meaning fewer regulations would be required to undergo review. AGC encourages the administration to abandon the executive order.