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Trade industries push for apprenticeship hiring ratio reform

Trade industries push for apprenticeship hiring ratio reform

by Kimberly Glassman | Mar 7, 2024 | Uncategorized

A Republican legislator who also runs a small electrical company wants to reduce the state’s apprenticeship hiring ratio, which supporters say would help bolster Connecticut’s trade industry workforce. The state Department of Consumer Protection imposes a so-called...
Trade industries push for apprenticeship hiring ratio reform

CT’s wage-theft investigators facing growing backlog of cases

by Kimberly Glassman | Mar 7, 2024 | Uncategorized

here have been at least 1,800 complaints each year since 2019. Meanwhile, the unit’s staff has dropped. Ten years ago, in 2014, there were 42 staff members, including 31 wage enforcement agents and wage and hour investigators combined. This year, 30 total staff...
Trade industries push for apprenticeship hiring ratio reform

Stamford-based United Rentals to acquire construction company for $1.1 billion

by Kimberly Glassman | Mar 6, 2024 | Uncategorized

United Rentals, the world’s largest equipment-rental company, announced this week that it agreed to acquire construction company Yak Access for about $1.1 billion from private equity firm Platinum Equity. The products and services of Hattiesburg, Mississippi-based Yak...
Trade industries push for apprenticeship hiring ratio reform

Wilton begins work to replace ‘overcrowded’ police station with new ‘modern’ home for department

by Kimberly Glassman | Mar 6, 2024 | Uncategorized

With construction now underway on Wilton’s new police station, Chief Thomas Conlan said the new facility will be a “morale boost” to the department’s 41 officers. Branford-based A. Secondino & Son Inc., Wilton’s contractor for the new building, began working on...
Trade industries push for apprenticeship hiring ratio reform

Stamford developer BLT proposes 354-unit residential complex on Long Ridge Road

by Kimberly Glassman | Mar 6, 2024 | Uncategorized

Developer Building and Land Technology is proposing to convert a four-story office building on a 25-acre site into a 354-unit residential complex at 800 Long Ridge Road that will include 618 total parking spaces, spread out over existing surface lots and an...
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