The Inland Northwest AGC website will be undergoing some upgrades and will be down for the day this Friday, September 9th. The new site will have a new, clean look and feature more user-friendly content.

Some of the features of the new page will include:

• Quick links on the home page to take you directly to the information you need.
• An AGC Blog to keep you up to date on all of the issues affecting the industry, our community and our chapter. This is a great interactive way to share news and gather member feedback.
• RSS feeds for the new blog, AGC News and AGC Events.
• Online member profile pages that you will be able to update and modify yourself. All members will be emailed their username and password on Monday. Plus, all employees of member companies can have their own username and password for the site.
• Upgraded events section with more timely event information, online registration and a Member Events Calendar for you to post your events.
• Better advertising opportunities for our members.

The AGC site is developed for you, our members, and we encourage feedback to help us improve the site. Once we are up and running, please don't hesitate to let us know what you think.

Starting Nov. 14, 2011, employers have yet another poster to post along with other employee notices.  The new poster informs employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and is mandated by a final rule published by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the August 30 Federal Register.  The rule establishes the size, form, and content of the notice, and remedies for noncompliance.

Who Must Post the Notice

The rule applies to nearly every private-sector employer.  It excludes businesses that the NLRB generally does not assert jurisdiction over, which are those that have only the smallest impact on interstate commerce.  For retail businesses and home builders, that usually means those with a gross annual volume of less than $500,000.  For other employers, including commercial construction contractors, the threshold is $50,000.  The rule applies regardless of whether the employer's workforce is unionized or not.

What's in the Notice

The notice includes information about employees' rights under the NLRA (such as the right to join a union, bargain collectively, discuss wages and benefits, and to strike and picket), examples of unlawful employer and union conduct, and information on how to contact the NLRB. The content is very similar to that of the notice required by most federal contractors pursuant to federal contract clauses mandated by a Department of Labor (DOL) regulation issued in May 2010.  Employers in compliance with the DOL requirement will be deemed to be in compliance with the NLRB requirement.  Accordingly, federal contractors need only post the DOL notice - not both the DOL notice and the NLRB notice - at jobsites covered by the DOL rule.

Read more here.

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