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Construction Worker Shortage Could Weigh on Harvey Recovery
Posted OnSeptember 1, 2017 byNEW YORK — A nationwide shortage of construction workers may slow rebuilding efforts in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which caused extensive flood damage to homes and businesses and is set to be one of the costliest natural disasters in U.S. history. Nine years after the housing bust drove an estimated 30 percent of construction…Read More…
New Focus on Apprenticeships – New Jersey Business Magazine
Posted OnAugust 30, 2017 byIdeally, a business could hire someone right out of school or off the street to fill a job opening and get a new employee who has been properly trained for the position. Anyone who has tried to hire someone recently knows this is not the world in which we live. The need for skilled workers…Read More…
$100 Million Money Laundering Scheme
Posted OnAugust 28, 2017 byContractor accused of scamming $1.5M arrested in South Carolina
Posted OnJune 15, 2017 byMake sure a home improvement contractor is registered with the state before you hire one. STAFF iPHONE VIDEO BY DAVID P. WILLIS Jamie Lynn Lawson (Photo: South Carolina Department of Corrections) CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN COMMENT EMAIL MORE A home contractor who was on the run since he was accused in December of stealing more than…Read More…
Worcester carpenters’ union to hold Front Street rally
Posted OnApril 23, 2017 byWORCESTER — A rally protesting a subcontractor allegedly paying below area wages and benefits will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday outside 145 Front St., where construction of a rental housing complex is underway. In an announcement about the rally, Carpenters Local 107 of Worcester said that subcontractor P&B Partitions of West Berlin, New…Read More…
OSHA investigates New Square construction fall
Posted OnMarch 27, 2017 byA construction worker was transported to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla on Friday after he fell from the second-floor of a work site in the Village of New Square.Read More…
Picatinny Arsenal employee charged with conspiracy to defraud U.S., bribery
Posted OnMarch 23, 2017 byA Stroudsburg, Pa., man working for the U.S. Army at Picatinny Arsenal has been charged with conspiracy to defraud the country and accepting bribes for allegedly asking for and accepting bribes for government and personal work, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.Read More…
Building ‘in the shadows’: N.J. trade unions hope to reinvigorate discussion on regulating underground construction economy
Posted OnMarch 6, 2017 byThe way Bill Sproule sees it, there are no winners in New Jersey’s underground construction economy.Read More…
N.J. company named among worst for wage theft fined $3.2 million
Posted OnFebruary 14, 2017 byThe New York City Comptroller levied a huge fine on a Parsippany company that cheated dozens of workers, mostly immigrant laborers, out of millions of dollars in wages for work on city projects. K.S. Contracting, owned by Paresh Shah, was ordered to pay $3.2 million and will also be barred from receiving state contracts for…Read More…
Parsippany contractor fined $3.2M for underpaying immigrant labor
Posted OnFebruary 14, 2017 byNew York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer on Tuesday assessed $3.2 million in fines against a Parsippany-based contractor for cheating dozens of workers out of the prevailing wages and benefits they were owed under the New York State Labor Law.Read More…