Construction’s unemployment rate dropped again in September from August’s level and also was down sharply from its year-earlier rate, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported.
The Israeli government is hoping thousands of Chinese construction workers will help to alleviate a housing shortage that has driven up prices by more than 50% in the past five years.
Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and Pittsburg, Kansas-based Pittsburg State University are the first two U.S. universities to have their undergraduate construction management (CM) programs independently accredited, says the Construction Management Association of America.
New Zealand's buoyant construction economy is not only drawing home Kiwis from Australia but also attracting Australians who are coping with their country's struggling resource economy or coming from softening North American energy and mining markets.
Construction’s August unemployment rate dropped to 6.1% from the year-earlier 7.7% but rose slightly from July’s level, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported.
Few construction professionals are more familiar with today’s infrastructure crisis than the staffers of the country’s various departments of public works—and few are more misunderstood.
After five years of litigation related to repercussions of safety whistleblowing at the Hanford federal nuclear waste cleanup site, former URS Corp. engineering manager Walter Tamosaitis has reached a $4.1-million settlement with AECOM, which bought the firm last October.
About 50 middle school students from a Las Vegas public school technical academy kicked off the summer with a three-day stay at an engineering students camp in Mount Vernon, Wash.
Photo courtesy of U.S. Dept. of Labor Perez says overtime pay regulation reforms are overdue. The Obama administration and Labor Secretary Thomas Perez intend to rewrite the rules on overtime pay, which generally protect carpenters and drywall installers and laborers. A little-noticed lawsuit under the existing rules, however, involves non-craft construction project staff — and the distinction about who is exempt and who is eligible for overtime pay.In late June, President Barack Obama announced a proposed rule change that raises the threshold above which white-collar employees may be exempt from overtime pay, from $455 per week to $970 per week.
Related Links: Bureau of Labor statistics release with data tables AGC Chief Economist Ken Simonson's comments and analysis ABC Chief Economist Anirban Basu's comments and analysis As the construction industry moves into the heart of its building season, its unemployment rate continues to fall and its workforce is increasing, the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest monthly report shows.The BLS employment report for July, released on Aug. 7, says that construction’s jobless rate dropped to 5.5% from June’s 6.3%, and also was down markedly from the year-earlier level of 7.5%. The rates aren’t adjusted for seasonal variations. BLS also reported that
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