Long Island's minimum wage stays frozen at $17 after state regulators cited local job losses — a rare reversal that keeps labor costs flat for LI contractors into next year. Newsday
The U.S. Department of Labor handed out $10.2 million across 67 organizations for workplace safety and health training grants, a pool construction trade groups can apply into for crew-level OSHA training funding. osha.gov
The Labor Department ruled a railroad illegally fired a worker who refused to work during severe weather, a precedent that lines up with New York's still-unwritten heat and weather safety rules for jobsites. osha.gov