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August 26, 2024
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ & 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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Impact on Federal Construction Projects Unclear
On January 20, President Biden issued an executive order (EO) requiring the wearing of masks, adherence to physical distancing, and other public health measures as provided in CDC guidelines for on-site federal contractors and other individuals in… Read More
January 21, 2021
President Biden Revokes Several Trump E.O.s
On January 20, President Biden issued an executive order (EO) that rescinds many executive orders issued under the Trump Administration aimed at streamlining federal regulation. Among those rescinded are the EO that required federal agencies… Read More
January 21, 2021
Pres. Biden has revoked Pres. Trump’s controversial executive order on diversity and inclusion training. The order, Executive Order 13950, placed restrictions on the content that federal contractors, grantees, and agencies, as well as the military, could cover in employee training. ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½â€¦ Read More
January 21, 2021
On January 15, 2021, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted to approve revisions to EEOC’s Compliance Manual Section on Religious Discrimination. The Commission had not updated the Compliance Manual since 2008.
Some noteworthy issues addressed in the Compliance Manual… Read More
January 21, 2021
On December 15, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued All Agency Memorandum (AAM) 235 rescinding AAM 212 and once again confirming that surveying work is not covered by the Davis-Bacon Act. At this time, it is unclear how the new Biden administration DOL… Read More
January 21, 2021
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has issued new guidance in its ongoing efforts to support the American workforce through the pandemic recovery. As employers continue to meet the challenges presented to their businesses by the coronavirus, and as telework arrangements and… Read More
January 21, 2021
Vulnerable to Rollback in New Administration
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ continues to track and comment on several environmental regulatory actions relevant to construction that the Trump Administration advances in the final days of the term, including those impacting species and Clean Water Act (CWA) permitting. Several… Read More
January 14, 2021
Previously Delayed Due to Covid-19 Public Health Emergency
After delaying the opening of the 2019 EEO-1 Component 1 Data Collections on May 8, 2020 in light of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that the collections… Read More
January 12, 2021
Few Construction Firms Expect the Industry to Recover to Pre-Pandemic Levels Anytime Soon, While Demand for Most Types of Projects is Likely to Fall amid Growing Project Delays and Cancellations
Construction employment increased by 51… Read More
January 8, 2021
ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½-Backed Bill Passes House
On January 5, the ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½-backed bill, H.R.26 - Construction Consensus Procurement Improvement Act of 2021, which would severely limit federal agencies from procuring construction services through reverse auctions passed the House of Representatives. ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ expects the Senate… Read More
January 7, 2021