The Department of Labour has helped 139 employees of a Guam-based contractor to recover $547,378 in back wages and liquidated damages. Ian Construction owed the workers $295,420 in back wages…

A male worker for the has been awarded $40,000 by the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration after a sex discrimination lawsuit found he was paid less than female…

US employers group the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) and its Louisiana chapter filed suit this week in federal court to block the Biden administration’s effort to mandate project…

A Florida woman has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the US and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). She has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison…

A construction firm in Long Island, New York pleaded guilty on Friday (5 January) to three criminal charges after a worker fell from a roof on the company’s own property…

An Orlando businessman will serve up to 30 months in prison for conspiracy to defraud the US government of $3.5m in tax revenue. Wendel Algarin was found guilty of aiding…

Confidence in China’s embattled property sector took another hit this month when a major Shanghai developer revealed it had filed a $1.38bn lawsuit against a steel company accusing it of…

US engineer Aecom has agreed to pay $11.8m to resolve allegations that it knowingly submitted false claims to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the replacement of educational facilities…

A court in Vietnam has sentenced 22 people to prison terms of up to six years for malpractice and negligence in building a major expressway. It also fined five contractors…

Key takeaways from the case: This case – DNCF Ltd v Genus Homes Ltd [2023] IEHC 490 – shows that the Irish High Courts will not resist the enforcement of…

Three men working in the German construction industry have been jailed for a total of 14 years and one received a suspended sentence for defrauding the state out of tax…

The European Commission said on Tuesday it was carrying out unannounced antitrust inspections in the construction chemicals sector of several member states.  It said there were concerns that companies may…

Four unnamed Dutch firms and eight individuals have been penalised in the Netherlands for helping Russia build a bridge to Crimea between 2014 and 2017 in breach of EU sanctions,…

Four people have been indicted over a $5-10m extension to a cancer centre in Florida, awarded by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). A reimbursement of $4.8m is being…

The US government has agreed to restore a sacred First Nation site in Oregon after a 15-year battle in the Supreme Court. The Place of Big Big trees, on the…

Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, a US subsidiary of the British contractor, has been sued by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), who allege that a female truck driver suffered “severe…

An upmarket New York contractor has been charged with defrauding its workers and breaking New York’s Workers’ Compensation and Labour laws. Both the All Luxury Contracting Corp and its president…

Jenny Shipley, New Zealand’s prime minister between 1997 and 1999, has been ordered to pay US$3.9m after the collapse of the Mainzeal construction company, for which she was a director.…