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ABC: Nonresidential Construction Spending Increases Slightly in June
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1—National nonresidential construction spending increased 0.1% in June, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data published today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Spending is up 18% over the past 12 months. On a seasonally...
ABC: Construction Job Openings Decreased by 5,000 in June
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1—The construction industry had 374,000 job openings on the last day of June, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. JOLTS defines a job...
ABC Opposes DOL’s Final Revision to the Form LM-10 Employer Report
On July 28, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards published its final revision to the Form LM-10 Employer Report, which adds a checkbox to the Form LM-10 report requiring certain reporting entities to indicate whether such entities were...
ABC Submits Comments to OSHA Supporting Leading Indicators, Promoting Safety Efforts
On July 17, ABC submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration in response to OSHA’s request for comments on its efforts to develop a leading indicators resource for usage by employers to improve safety management...
ABC Opposes OSHA’s Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses Final Rule
WASHINGTON, July 17—ABC announced its opposition to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses final rule, issued today, which will undo the ABC-supported provisions of the 2019...
Industry News
Regulatory Update on DOL’s Worker Walkaround Representative Designation Process, Overtime and Form LM-10 Employer Report
Three proposed rules of concern to ABC members promulgated by the U.S. Department of Labor are currently at the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and are expected to be issued imminently. The Worker Walkaround...
DOL Invites Small Business Owners to Offer Input on Potential Heat Standard to Protect Indoor, Outdoor Workers
On June 22, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced it will be holding Small Business Advocacy Review panel (also known as a SBREFA panel) meetings this summer to gather input on a possible Heat Injury and Illness...
Build Your Safety Culture Through Robust New Hire Safety Orientations and Incident Investigations
The roadmap to building a strong health and safety culture begins with improving new hire safety orientations and intentional incident investigations. It seems simple, but the reality is that this journey does not happen by itself. We must be committed to safety as a...
How To Stay Safe in Extreme Heat
Construction is highly labor-intensive, and nothing gets done without our highly skilled and dedicated workforce. While standards tend to treat everyone equally, construction workers are not equally affected by heat those with certain health conditions or...
EPA and Army Corps Pause WOTUS Determinations, Plan Rule by Sept. 1
At a June 22 House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Michael Connor informed the committee that the Army Corps would be pausing all Clean Water Act jurisdictional determinations until a rulemaking...