A lawsuit filed this week accuses a Fox Valley construction company of failing to give its employees a full lunch break, effectively "shaving" hours from workers' weekly earnings — a claim the company denies.

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Construction companies are still clamoring for talent as they expect another year of strong demand for construction projects, according to a trade group's survey released on Wednesday.

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Perhaps more so than any other year in recent memory, 2018 was momentous for the construction industry in Wisconsin.

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Construction employment exceeded 7.3 million in October, the first time it has done so in more than 10 years.

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Average hourly wages in the construction exceeded $30 an hour for the first time ever this September, a prominent trades group reported on Friday.

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Weighing in on the country's construction-labor shortage, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari told a group of contractors last week that businesses are doing “extraordinary things” to attract more workers.

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Average hourly earnings for construction workers climbed 3 percent in December from the same month a year earlier, according to an analysis of federal data.

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The owner of an Oak Creek restoration company facing a federal wage lawsuit from former employees is striking back against two of them, his half-brother and that man’s girlfriend, claiming they owe at least $60,000.

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Earlier this year, a former "Raiderette," the official name of an Oakland Raiders cheerleader, filed a lawsuit against the NFL team, alleging wage and hour violations.

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A state Senate committee will hear bills Monday that would prevent local minimum-wage ordinances and residency rules from applying to contractors that get state and federal money funneled through local governments.

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