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Wellness is for builders, not just for buildings

BD+C

While formal regulations, planning, and union collective bargaining agreements have helped address many health and safety risks, more holistic health and wellness issues, such as dehydration, weight management, poor air quality, and stress, are less commonly addressed. . But what about going home healthy? .

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Do Project Labor Agreements Restrict Competition?

Construction Dive

These are pre-hire agreements between a general contractor or a construction manager and a designated collective bargaining representative for all labor on the project. Labor is not restricted to union members, although non-union labor must be hired through union halls and paid the negotiated rates. What do you think?

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2013 Interpretations of OSHA Regulations

Safety Services Company

Even while creating new regulations and amending current ones to fit the workplace’s changing safety standards, OSHA is hard at work providing guidance material to help employers follow their rules, and answering questions and providing guidance on existing rules.

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Breaking with Tradition, The Current NLRB is on a Rulemaking Tear: Election Procedures, Recognition Bar, and 9(a) Collective Bargaining Relationships

Construction and Infrastructure Law

Consistent with that wide-ranging Agenda, on August 12, the Board published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) over the objection of Democratic appointee, Lauren McFerran, that would amend the Agency’s rules and regulations governing the filing and processing of election petitions in three very important ways.

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Breaking with Tradition, The Current NLRB is on a Rulemaking Tear: Election Procedures, Recognition Bar, and 9(a) Collective Bargaining Relationships

Construction and Infrastructure Law

Consistent with that wide-ranging Agenda, on August 12, the Board published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) over the objection of Democratic appointee, Lauren McFerran, that would amend the Agency’s rules and regulations governing the filing and processing of election petitions in three very important ways.