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August 26, 2024
乌鸦传媒 & 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鈥檚 failure to invest in construction鈥 Read More
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The U.S. Department of Labor鈥檚 Wage and Hour Division (WHD) published new frequently asked questions (FAQs) for workers and employers about qualifying for paid leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) related to the reopening of schools.
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September 10, 2020
On Sept. 9, 乌鸦传媒 helped lead an ad hoc coalition of 88 national trade associations and labor unions in calling on Congressional leaders to take action on three priorities: (1) a turn-key, one-year extension of the current surface transportation law鈥攖he FAST Act鈥攚ith increased investment levels; (2)鈥 Read More
September 10, 2020
Tell Congress & the President to Protect Construction Jobs!
The federal-aid highway and transit programs shut down in 20 days unless Congress and President Trump take action. Click HERE and tell them to act before September 30 to avoid the potential loss of hundreds of thousands of鈥 Read More
September 10, 2020
Learn More at 乌鸦传媒鈥檚 Construction HR and Training Virtual Conference
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) posted an updated technical assistance document, 鈥淲hat You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws (WYSK),鈥 which incorporates鈥 Read More
September 9, 2020
Postponed and Canceled Projects Proliferate, Yet Majority of Firms Report Difficulty Filling Hourly Craft Positions; Officials Urge Immediate Federal Action to Fund Infrastructure and Enact Liability Reforms
Construction employment increased by 16,000 jobs in August, but the gains were鈥 Read More
September 4, 2020
Sixty Percent of Firms Report Future Projects Have Been Canceled or Delayed, But 52 Percent of Firms Struggle to Find Craft Workers Amid Worker Fears of COVID and Unemployment Supplement
The coronavirus has harmed the construction industry, prompting project delays and cancellations, layoffs and鈥 Read More
September 2, 2020
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is proposing to reissue and modify its Nationwide Permits that provide a streamlined process for the Corps to authorize discharges of 鈥渄redged or fill material鈥 under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 of the River and Harbors Act. 鈥 Read More
September 1, 2020
Steep monthly declines in public and private nonresidential construction spending offset a surge in homebuilding in July, while industry employment decreased compared to July 2019 levels in two-thirds of the nation鈥檚 metro areas, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of鈥 Read More
September 1, 2020
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service are proposing to add a definition of 鈥渉abitat鈥 to the regulations that implement section 4 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The proposed definition 鈥 which would be used in the context of making critical habitat鈥 Read More
August 31, 2020
On Aug. 11, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) invalidated the 2017 Department of the Interior legal opinion (M-37050) that had reversed prior policy by stating that the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) does not prohibit incidental take. The SDNY judge鈥 Read More
August 30, 2020