New U.S. COVID-19 Paid Sick Leave Law Has Lots of Gray Bruce Buckley April 15, 2020 No Comments With the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act in effect on April 1, design and construction firms are grappling with new provisions for emergency paid sick leave and paid family medical leave.Read More
Coronavirus and Construction Construction Job Totals Start to Fall, with 29,000 Drop in March Tom Ichniowski April 3, 2020 No Comments Report also shows industry's unemployment rate rose from February and year-earlier level.Read More
Construction Workforce PBGC OKs Construction Union Locals' Pension Fund Merger Tom Ichniowski January 15, 2020 No Comments Merger of New York State LIUNA locals' pension funds is first under 2014 multiemployer pension law.Read More
Construction Workforce Construction Gains 20,000 Jobs in Dec., Jobless Rate Shows Mixed Results January 10, 2020 No Comments Industry's unemployment rate up to 5.0% from November's 4.4% but dips from December 2018's 5.1%, BLS says.Read More
Rosendin Electric Rearranges Its C-Suite December 18, 2019 No Comments NYC contractor firm founder Robert Brennan is dead at 77Read More
Construction Workforce Construction Jobless Rate Weakens in November Industry officials trace results to continued worker shortage Tom Ichniowski December 6, 2019 No Comments Industry added only 1,000 jobs for the month but workforce still is up by 2%, year over year.Read More
Construction Workforce Construction Oct. Jobless Rate Falters Despite Gain of 10,000 Jobs November 1, 2019 No Comments Industry's unemployment rate increased to 4.0% from September's 3.2% and October 2018's 3.6%.Read More
Construction Workforce Construction Sept. Jobless Rate Falls, Matching Industry's 10-Year Low Tom Ichniowski October 4, 2019 No Comments Industry's jobless rate dips to 3.2% in September from August's 3.6% and year-earlier 4.1%, BLS says.Read More
New California Worker Law Has Industry Exemptions, But Not For All Erica Berardi September 20, 2019 No Comments Starting Jan. 1, workers in the state must meet a three-part standard to retain classification as independent contractors.Read More
Construction Workforce Senate Confirms Scalia to be Labor Secretary Attorney faces key construction issues, including apprenticeship proposal Tom Ichniowski September 17, 2019 No Comments Update 9/26: Nominee approved on 53-44 vote along party lines.Read More