It’s been over a year since we’ve all been together so plan now to join your fellow CISCA members at our Fall Conference & Product Showcase. You’ll love the amazing casino resort venue we have selected outside Phoenix so come enjoy the warm Arizona sunshine with us!

The event is loaded with networking events and fun group activities you won’t want to miss. The Product Showcase includes demo sessions for up close interactions with top manufacturers. Bob Treadway is back again to give us his economic outlook and the 2021 CISCA Construction Excellence Awards will be presented. It’s going to be a great time! 

September 22 at 1:00 pm CT – Matt Booth – A Positive Attitude in a Negative World

Construction employment in July remained below the levels reached before the pre-pandemic peak in February 2020 in 36 states, according to an analysis by AGC of America of government employment data released recently. Association officials said construction employment would benefit from new federal infrastructure investments and urged the House to quickly pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

Boomers are leaving the workforce at a staggering rate. According to the Pew Research Center, on average, 2 million boomers have retired each year since 2011. That number rose dramatically in 2020 to 3.2 million. Within two years, millennials and Gen Z will make up over 52% of the workforce. As leaders, does this mean that the workforce is trading its skilled, hard workers for the entitled and flaky? Not likely.

OSHA is urging employers in the construction industry to take part in a weeklong safety stand-down to raise awareness about suicide prevention.

The U.S. construction industry temporarily came to a halt at the start of the pandemic. Thankfully, many leaders realized the essentialness of construction work and allowed projects to restart. However, according to Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), the global health crisis cost the commercial construction industry more than one million workers. As of June 2021, ABC reported an 80% rebound in employment, with a shortage of between 200,000 to 400,000 workers still needed to close the pre-pandemic hiring gap.

Construction tech is still a nascent industry, despite the fact that investors have put billions of dollars into the sector over the past several years. As general contractors, site supervisors and office managers at construction firms gradually bring technology into their day-to-day processes, they're learning that their corner of the digital world is not immune to privacy issues. Specifically, the buying and selling of their personal and company data is at risk.

Before coming up with a COVID-19 vaccination policy, an employer should carefully consider the state of its current workforce.

NIOSH is partnering with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine on a survey focusing on employer efforts related to workplace testing for COVID-19.

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