Responsible Business Owners and Working Families Urge Council Support and Action to Bring Wage Theft DownAs Houston city council members shift into campaign mode to convince...
Compensation
An attractive and competitive wage structure is of vital importance for sustaining high performance and value. An added benefits package further helps keep the focus on job, career and company successes. These are necessary components to attract and retain the right people to the construction industry.
Efforts to crack down on worker misclassification in Texas took a step forward this year with the passage of a targeted crackdown on the practice that some have gone so far as to...
Immigration Reform Must Raise the Bar for Workers and Level the Playing Field for Ethical Businesses
As a longtime supporter of comprehensive immigration reform, I am more optimistic than ever about a real solution coming out of Washington. The partisanship and ideology...
Real independent contractors are easy to identify. They are hired to perform a specific project, they bring their own tools, they have their own business cards, and they...
The Construction Citizen team has written many times about the growing controversy over whether college is becoming obsolete and actually a liability for many in America. ...
Following reports on the alleged mistreatment of workers on University of Texas student house projects, some of those workers actually received some good news this past week....
As reported on Construction Citizen last week, some construction workers who helped build luxury student apartments on the University of Texas campus in Austin have alleged that...
