Recently, the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation centralized the six current class action suits to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for further...
Government Actions
When the private sector does not address a major issue, the public sector will often step into the vacuum and do it. The construction industry has been slow to embrace the principles of social responsibility and sustainable value, focusing instead on whatever it takes to be lowest bidder. As a consequence of this, government is adopting policies that reshape the rules for the industry.
A fight between some construction companies and Texas bankers may have to wait until the next legislative session to be resolved. That was the tone of a hearing this week in the...
The bill still has a long way to go, but the proposed crackdown on the intentional misclassification of construction workers in Texas passed a milestone last week when it was...
A federal grand jury in Kansas City, Kansas has charged a construction company, its owners, and four of its crew leaders with harboring illegal aliens and money laundering,...
Major Texas homebuilders came out against the state's moves toward cracking down on worker misclassification during a legislative hearing on Wednesday. The Leading Builders of...
Construction industry leaders, associations, labor unions and others testified before lawmakers in Austin on Wednesday that the state needs to aggressively go after companies that...
This article by Representative Armando Walle, D-Houston originally appeared in the Houston Chronicle on April 1, 2013. Reprinted with permission.In recent years,...
Following at least a month of weekly stakeholders meetings, Senator John Carona is set to lay out his vision for dealing with worker misclassification in a Texas Senate committee...
