Construction Business Owner, May 2008

When a construction business owner makes a choice to expand the company's existing scope of operations into states beyond the company's "home" state,  that owner frequently fails to consider what is often one of the more critical steps in multi-state expansion-licensing.

Construction Business Owner, April 2008

Immigrants will continue to be a major source of new workers in the United States. In particular, Hispanics are among the nation's fastest growing minority group. In 2006, Hispanics comprised about 14.5 percent of the population. The number should grow to 18 percent by 2020, and 25 percent by 2050.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Hispanics make up approximately 50 percent of the workforce in the construction industry. This means that construction business owners must learn to identify and examine the complex issues a rapidly increasing Hispanic workforce poses for them.

Construction Business Owner, February 2008

Construction employers face a more difficult compliance task today than ever before. This is because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began enforcing immigration law in the interior in the spring of 2006.