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New Survey Shows How Nation’s Failure To Invest In Construction Education & Training Programs Makes It Hard For Firms To Build
August 26, 2024
  AGC & 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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Labor Department Formally Moves to Rescind "Persuader Rule"
The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a proposed rule to rescind the controversial “persuader rule” issued by the previous administration.  AGC plans to submit comments in support of the rescission prior to the August 11 deadline. The “persuader” rule expands the reporting obligations of… Read More
June 26, 2017
HOUSE PASSAGE OF PERKINS ACT LEGISLATION AN IMPORTANT STEP IN ADDRESSING GROWING CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE SHORTAGES
Legislation Includes Needed Reforms to Makes it Easier for School Districts to Teach Construction Skills and Improves Employer Engagement The chief executive officer of the Associated General Contractors of America, Stephen E. Sandherr, issued the following statement today in response to the… Read More
June 22, 2017
U.S. Small Business Administration Advances Federal Regulatory Reform Efforts
Tell Gov’t What Rules Should Be Modified or Removed to Help Small Businesses The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy (SBA/Advocacy) is hosting a series of “Regulatory Roundtables” across the country to identify, through first-hand testimony, specific regulatory barriers to… Read More
June 21, 2017
Forty-Two States Add Construction Jobs Between May 2016 & 2017 But 25 States and D.C. Lose Jobs from April to May as Firms Struggle to Find Workers
Forty-two states added construction jobs between May 2016 and May 2017 amid growing demand for construction services, while 25 states and the District of Columbia lost construction jobs between April and May as firms struggle to find enough workers, according to an analysis by the Associated… Read More
June 16, 2017
President Trump Takes Steps to Reform Project Permitting Process
Establishes New Office to Root out Inefficiency AGC of America brought Infrastructure Week to a close last Friday with President Donald Trump at the Department of Transportation.  In his speech, President Trump criticized the red-tape associated with obtaining project permits and… Read More
June 15, 2017
AGC Hosts OFCCP Contractor Compliance Meeting
On June 14, 2017, AGC hosted a meeting between AGC members and officials from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).  OFCCP requested the meeting for the purpose of identifying problems that construction contractors have in meeting… Read More
June 15, 2017
AGC Leading the Charge on Federal Environmental Permitting and Review Reform
Both Congress and the White House have turned to AGC for common-sense recommendations on streamlining the federal environmental permitting and review processes. And, AGC has delivered.  The primary reforms AGC shared in its May 2017 testimony before Congress include: Requiring a nationwide… Read More
June 15, 2017
EPA Puts Brakes on Costly 2015 Ozone Standard
Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt announced a one-year delay of EPA’s final designation of counties that are not attaining the 2015 ozone national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS).  The 2015 standard tightened the existing 2008 standard… Read More
June 12, 2017
Construction Staff Wages Expected to Rise by 3.4% This Year
Construction staff wages rose by 3.6% in 2016 and contractors are projecting wages to increase an average of 3.4% in 2017, according to the latest Contractor Compensation Quarterly (CCQ) published by PAS, Inc. Based on their Construction/CM Staff Salary Survey, PAS reports that increases appear to… Read More
June 8, 2017
US Secretary of Labor Withdraws Joint Employer, Independent Contractor Informal Guidance
In line with AGC’s regulatory recommendations, on June 7, 2017, U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta announced the withdrawal of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2015 and 2016 informal guidance on joint employment and independent contractors. Both pieces of guidance together took an… Read More
June 7, 2017

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