The American Wood Council submitted a grant proposal to the Environmental Protection Agency aimed at increased transparency in the U.S. wood product industry by further developing Environmental Product Declarations and Product Category Rules for the industry.
According to the results of a new survey of ABC contractor-members and chapters published Feb. 27, the U.S. Department of Labor’s controversial, over-180,000-word proposed rule overhauling regulations related to government-registered apprenticeship programs will discourage apprentices, contractors and ABC chapter apprenticeship program providers from participating in the government-registered apprenticeship system.
The ACI Foundation is administering a request for proposal on behalf of ACI’s Innovation Task Group 93-12 — Code Requirements for Construction of Additively Constructed Walls (ITG-12).
The Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration announced a notice of proposed rulemaking to enhance the National Apprenticeship System by modernizing regulations for registered apprenticeships.
SWACCA and the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades submitted a joint comment letter supporting the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s proposed rule to specifically require that the personal protective equipment construction employers are required to provide properly fits workers.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Enacted in December 2022, the PWFA requires covered entities to provide reasonable accommodations to a worker’s known limitation related to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, unless the accommodation will cause the employer undue hardship.
The U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury announced the issuance of a proposed rule to strengthen regulations under the 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, which aims to ensure that access to mental health and substance use disorder benefits through health insurers is not more restrictive than access to medical and surgical benefits.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration published a proposed rule to revise its personal protective equipment standard for construction to explicitly require that PPE must fit properly to protect workers from workplace hazards.
Sens. Ben Cardin (D-MD), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and over 20 of their Democratic colleagues reintroduced the Safe Environment from Countries Under Repression and in Emergency Act, legislation to allow Temporary Protected Status recipients to apply for legal permanent residency and receive work authorization.