Construction Officials Call on Obama Administration to Reconsider Proposed Hiring Quotas

The Associated General Contractors of America today joined with 10 other national business associations in calling on the Obama administration to reconsider a series of new hiring mandates it wants to impose on contractors working on federal projects. Association officials noted that the government has failed to produce any data justifying the very costly and incredibly prescriptive new hiring mandates. "The administration is getting ready to impose a tremendous new regulatory burden on thousands of employers to fix a problem that doesn't appear to exist," said Stephen E. Sandherr, the association's chief executive officer. "The administration is trying to mandate away the symptoms of a broader problem: a stagnant economy that has left too many Americans out of work for too long." Read the full press release here.  The news was covered by Buffalo Business First, Equipment World, Phoenix Business Journal and the Washington Post.