Employment Practices and Records

Abstract

A construction project is an organization of specialists, headed by the project manager. Included in the organization are various field engineers, scheduling and cost control analysts, estimators, quality control and material control experts, labor and craft supervisors, skilled craftsmen, and many others, all with a broad range of experience within their individual specialties and skillfully organized to work within the framework of a tightly scheduled project contract. It is a business of temporary employment and temporary assignments. Skilled craftsmen, hired by the hour and working under union agreement, complete their job specialty as needed during the construction phase of the project and are then laid off, to be rehired again by another company for another project. Even the smaller semipermanent staff of engineers and construction management personnel is on temporary assignment until the completion of the project, whereupon they must be reassigned to a new project.