A draft bill being circulated in the state Legislature would shield Wisconsin employers from lawsuits if their workers catch COVID-19 on the job.

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A least two-thirds of highway construction companies in the U.S. saw at least one crash in work zones last year, according to a survey released Tuesday.

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A new survey from the Associated General Contractors of America suggests contractors in many parts of the country are bouncing back from the coronavirus pandemic, although long-term difficulties may be emerging.

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After sifting through more than 150 applications, officials at the Associated General Contractors of Greater Milwaukee found they didn’t have to go far for their next chief executive. Mark Kessenich, who will take the reins at the AGC of Greater Milwaukee in June, has spent the past eight years at the workforce-group development group WRTP/Big Step, six of those as president. Recent months have also seen him leading Employ Milwaukee, another large organization with a goal of bringing more people into the workforce.

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Though the construction industry has largely continued to work through the coronavirus pandemic, it hasn’t dodged the broad economic downturn that’s followed the outbreak, according to a survey released by the Associated General Contractors of America Friday.

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The Associated General Contractors of America has honored Menasha's Faith Technologies as having the best safety and wellness plan in the country in 2019.

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Contractors won't need to report to OSHA cases of COVID-19 unless it's clear that an employee caught the virus on a jobsite, under recently released guidance from federal officials.

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The Associated General Contractors of America is warning that shutting down construction projects to slow the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak could damage the economy and undermine recovery efforts.

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Tyler Raymundo is a senior at Tremper High School, but for a few hours on a recent Wednesday, he was a lawyer and a divorced father of an 11-month old child.

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Wisconsin gained 800 construction jobs from June to July, according to seasonally adjusted federal figures.

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