Construction laborers can have a wide range of physical labor tasks on construction sites include digging holes, mixing concrete, cleaning and preparing jobsites, erecting scaffolding and even ...

The construction industry is facing a perfect storm in the labor arena. Not only is it harder to find workers, but employers are having to pay those they do hire – many underqualified – steadily ...

Despite losing 61,000 jobs on net in February, labor market tightness is set to rear its ugly head again in construction as the industry continues its post-pandemic recovery. According to the 2020 ...

Chris Coleman is partner-in-charge of St. Louis-based accounting firm RubinBrown’s Construction Services Group. Opinions are the author’s own. In an already tight construction labor market, raids by U ...

Deportations and inflation are worsening a labor shortage that was already running rampant through the construction industry, hindering projects and adding to an already significant affordable housing ...

From 2021 to 2023, the construction industry faced a tumultuous economic climate, marked by a confluence of challenging trends that have tested the resilience of industry executives. This period saw a ...

Carpenters are just one of several trades in high demand with the need for more housing across the US. Many children grow up dreaming of what they will be later in life and how they are going to ...

Construction is a labor-intensive business. Despite tremendous advances in design, coordination, and management technologies, the physical installation of work in the field remains reliant on people.

When President Biden inked the $1 trillion deal to give roads, bridges and transit systems a boost, union officials and business leaders said a large scale investment in infrastructure was long ...

Roughly 115,000 construction job openings disappeared from the government’s accounting last month, suggesting the labor shortage that has dogged the construction sector is waning. The on-the-ground ...