New Wage Theft and Payroll Fraud Study Released in FloridaAccording to a recent report in the Florida Independent, wage theft and payroll fraud are rampant in Florida, and the...
Reshaping the Industry
Three actions are necessary to build a thriving, profitable and durable construction industry:
- Acceptance. Recognize current situations and challenges and accept they are real.
- Leadership. Embrace core values and principles as innovators and leaders.
- Solutions. Collaborate among owners, contractors and workforce for solutions.
First of all I have to tell you that I think that the subcontractors who hire day laborers, work them 12-14 hours a day, and then don’t pay them their base pay or even the...
Subcontracting companies working at Pulte Homes sites in Massachusetts have been found guilty of wage theft, payroll fraud, and unemployment insurance violations. The...
Last month Cornerstone, the quarterly magazine of American General Contractors Houston (AGC), published an article about the Construction Career Collaborative (C3), the initiative...
You’re driving down the freeway at 65 mph when you look over and the person next to you is reading their email and texting on their smartphone. Worse yet is the person on...
The following viewpoint was offered by Mike M., a 24-year-old intern who supports the ConstructionCitizen blog.The painful truth is that the vast majority of Americans are...
According to a recently released Global Metro Monitor published by the Brookings Institute, an analysis of per capita GDP (Gross Domestic Product, i.e. income) and employment...
The Construction Citizen series about the presentation of two possible scenarios for what Houston might be like 30 years from now continues. In this video containing the...
Loren Steffy, in his Sunday column for the Houston Chronicle, spells out the impact of payroll fraud and worker misclassification on the US deficit. He says that two things...
