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AGC Offers July 27 Webinar to Help Contractors Prepare

AGC of America wants to understand exactly how labor shortages, supply chain challenges, and inflation are impacting the construction industry. Please help by taking a few minutes to complete the 2023 Autodesk and AGC of America Workforce Survey by Aug. 14. Your responses will help AGC to describe labor market conditions where you operate and to convince public officials to enact measures in that advance the construction industry.

Wage theft – a broad term referring to various ways by which employers fail to pay employees their full compensation – is a growing concern and reportedly a bigger problem in construction than in any other industry. Many state and local governments have adopted wage theft laws that give workers new ways to recover unpaid wages, impose on employers new compliance obligations and liabilities, and increase the penalties for violations. Contractors operating in multiple jurisdictions especially need to know about the changing landscape.

In its latest Settlements Report, the AGC-supported Construction Labor Research Council (CLRC) advises that construction-industry collective bargaining agreements settled from January through June of 2023 provide an average increase in wages, fringe benefits and other employer payments for union craft workers in the construction industry had an average increase of 4.4 percent.

Partnering Agreements No Longer Required for the Now-Named Marvin M. Black Excellence in Partnering & Collaboration Awards