Starting March 17, contractors and builders across the city will be required to shut down all work on construction sites, in some cases leaving skeleton crews to secure materials and monitor the sites, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced in an afternoon press conference. A former construction worker who rose to become the city’s head of the Building and Construction Trades Council, Walsh estimated the shutdown order could throw “tens of thousands” of ironworkers, carpenters, electricians and other tradesmen and women out of work. The Boston mayor also appealed to the city’s big construction employers to “do the right thing” and lay off workers – presumably so they can collect unemployment – and not fire them.
https://www.enr.com/articles/48871-coronavirus-shuts-down-boston-construction-sites