Don’t Miss Out! Jan. 10-12, 2018 The 2018 Winter Safety & Health Conference will take place Jan. 10-12, 2018 at the Hilton in Long Beach, California. Join more than 250 industry professionals and participate in the development of regulatory and legislative activity on both a national and local level; assist in the development and creation […]
For this month’s episode of the ConstructorCast, we sit down with Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute to discuss his book Men Without Work and what his research can tell us about the possible causes of workforce shortages in the construction industry. This insightful discussion touches on everything from the opioid crisis, family structure, disability insurance […]
Safety Excellence Awards The Willis Towers Watson-AGC Construction Safety Excellence Awards (CSEA) is the industry’s elite safety excellence awards program for contractors of all types and sizes. It is unique because applicants are not only judged based on their submitted applications, they have the opportunity to deliver five minute presentations to a panel of five […]
November 9, 2017 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm EST Register today. Federal agencies now mandate minimum cyber security requirements for companies that do business with the federal government. Federal agencies now require federal contractors to implement new security control requirements and ensure sensitive federal information remains confidential when stored on any non-federal electronic system. It began […]
Complimentary AGC Webinar: November 8, 2017 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET Register today for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division webinar for AGC members on the requirement for federal contractors to provide seven days (56 hours) of paid sick leave annually. The requirement went into effect for contract solicitations issued on or […]
AGC Continues to Fight in Court/DC and Provide Members with Resources On October 23, 2017, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) began full enforcement of its respirable crystalline silica standard for construction. If your construction company operates under OSHA state-plans in one of 26 states or two territories, it is important that you check to see […]
The Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee voted yesterday to approve the nomination of Paul Trombino, President Trump’s pick to serve as the next Federal Highway Administrator. The full Senate must now approve the nomination. A vote is not yet scheduled but could happen at any time. Mr. Trombino served as the Director of […]
This week, the House Judiciary Committee advanced immigration legislation that included a guest worker bill for agricultural workers and mandatory E-Verify for all employers with regard to new hires. The E-Verify bill, the Legal Workforce Act (LWA), has long been tied to immigration reform efforts, and the Republican controlled Congress considers its passage to be […]
This afternoon, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the budget resolution (H. Con. Res. 71) by a vote of 216-212. Importantly, the budget resolution sets forth the process for expedited consideration of tax reform legislation in the Senate, requiring only 50 votes for passage. Following the vote, Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady announced that […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt signed an agency-wide directive (and accompanying memo) on Oct. 16 that imposes steps to end the practice known as “sue and settle” – which is a quick resolution of citizen suits by environmental groups against the EPA, involving the agency’s failure to comply with statutory deadlines for issuance […]
