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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Construction is exempt as ‘essential infrastructure’ under most executive orders across the country. I work for a GC and it really is a hard balance. If we shut our sites down then our subcontractors and their employees won’t get paid. Most of those employees live paycheck-to-paycheck and they’re desperate for work.

This isn’t just self-serving commentary—if we had a national healthcare system and more paid leave, the answer would be different. More evidence of this—in jobs near borders where one state prohibits construction and the other allows it, we are seeing surplus labor coming over the border. Nobody wants to get sick but they want to feed their families even more.[/quote]

My DH who worked for one of the largest GCs in this area for over 10 years can confirm this is just the reality. He now works in a slightly different capacity but he's still going to the [construction] site a few times a week to check on the project, and the GC has been continuing work. Construction was classified as an essential business.

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