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Women still face harassment on Minnesota job sites
A 2021 report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research reveals that 48% of women in the trades believe they are “held to a higher standard than their men co-workers,” and 26.5% say they are “always or frequently harassed just for being a woman.”
Navigating age discrimination in the workplace
What happens when you experience discrimination in the workplace because of your age? What is “age discrimination” under the law?
Carpenter alleges he was barred from sites for complaining of racist incident
A Madison carpenter is suing a trio of contractors, claiming he was barred from certain projects for filing a job discrimination claim after a supervisor called him a series of racist slurs during an altercation on a work site.
Minn. construction company settles racial discrimination case
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says a Hugo construction company will pay $125,000 to two former employees to settle a racial harassment lawsuit.
Appeals court sides with Cullen in discrimination lawsuit
General contractor J.P. Cullen & Sons has prevailed in a racial-discrimination lawsuit after an employee of a subcontractor was unable to prove that Cullen was his employer.
Employers face liability when other employers discriminate
Can an employer be held liable for acts of employment discrimination carried out by another employer? The quick, lawyerly answer is ... it depends.
Appleton bans sex-identity housing discrimination
Appleton becomes the third city in Wisconsin to adopt rules against housing discrimination based on gender identity.
Wisconsin construction company to pay $85K for retaliatory firing
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee construction company will pay $85,000 to settle charges that it fired a black employee after he filed a charge of racial discrimination. CG Schmidt Inc. […]
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Wisconsin employers who discriminate will be met with pay penalties Madison (AP) — Wisconsin employers who discriminate against their workers will face stiffer penalties under a plan state lawmakers approved […]
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- Kenosha firm completes largest private affordable housing project in Wisconsin
- After federal DEI rollback, Wisconsin DBE recertifications plummet
- Milwaukee Tool plans 141,000-square-foot expansion in Menomonee Falls
- Wisconsin Pre-Bid Meetings – Week of June 1, 2026
- Milwaukee County investment helped bring Whitefish Bay development to life
- Milwaukee considers 12-story, 200-unit Harbor District apartment plans
- Wauwatosa students take next steps to ‘irreplaceable’ construction jobs
- Racine starts $130 million lead service line replacement project
- Federal court shelves lawsuit seeking to dismantle DBE program
- Oshkosh to buy City Center for $12.5 million
- Warehouse hoped to be hotel suffers fire in Milwaukee
- TOP BIDDERS: The biggest recent winning bids from around Wisconsin
Project Profiles
- First prefabricated bridge in US installed in Eau Claire County
- Illinois developer worked with Wisconsin contractor to build 258-unit Wauwatosa apartment complex
- VJS Construction raises the roof for Bruce Guadalupe Community School expansion project
- Microgrid pilot project will store energy for village affected by outages
- Dane County sees uptick in highway work zone crashes, on track to exceed last year
- The Hop streetcar will debut newest service route in fall with limited service
- FPC Live slims venue proposal to 1 downtown building
- Children’s Hospital urgent care center in Milwaukee gets first round of city approval
- With Sonag Construction shut down, feds move to block indicted owner from collecting leftover assets
- Four contractors selected to build border wall prototypes
- UW-Milwaukee’s Greenstreet shaping minds (and the city)
- Turning the Corner(s) (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)