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BULLETIN! Action Required by March 30: Emergency Contact Requirement As originally reported in our 2025 Issues on the Radar recap and Know Your Rights Act Bulletin (1/7/26), Senate Bill (SB) 294 required employers to distribute the Workplace Know Your Rights Act notice by February 1, 2026. The next deadline for the Act carries an additional requirement that must be completed by March 30, 2026. What Employers Must Do By March 30 Employers are required to provide current employees the opportunity to: Name an emergency contact Indicate whether that contact should be notified if the employee is arrested or detained on [...]

BULLETIN! New Public Works Site: Now LIVE! PUBLIC WORKS PORTAL Sign up | Login in The Public Works Portal upgrade is now live. ❗The old weblink no longer will work. ➡️Please access the portal using the new link: https://services.dir.ca.gov/pw Please update your existing bookmarks with the new weblink. As reported in the MCAC 1Q 2026 Newsletter distributed March 31, the new access link to the Public Works portal is live and should be used as of today. What's New in the Portal: Improved user sign-up and account linking Redesigned dashboards for Contractors and Awarding [...]

BULLETIN! SB-294: The Workplace Know Your Rights Act Senate Bill (SB) 294, known as the Workplace Know Your Rights Act, has officially passed and requires immediate employer attention. Under the Act, employers must provide employees with a mandatory workplace rights notice on or before February 1, 2026, and annually thereafter. The law also grants employees the right to designate an emergency contact, who must be notified by the employer if the employee is arrested or detained while at work. Finally, employers are required to maintain records for at least three years documenting when and how the required notices were distributed. Let's [...]

BIM-M announces the availability of a new report titled "BIM Deliverables Guide for Masonry Contractors" Developed by mason contractors for mason contractors under the direction of BIM-M project consultant Fred Kinateder, the Guide addresses 6 key issues every mason contractor needs to know: Why BIM is important to the mason contractor How to get started in BIM What a BIM Execution Plan is and how to develop one Examples of software being used by mason contractors to work in the BIM environment Deliverables that provide a return on investment for contractors that are willing to invest the time and [...]

M.C.A.C. HAWAII 2019 PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACT (P.A.G.A) and Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court OVERVIEW View / Download PDF Presentation Presented by: Christopher J. Moore Saint Moore Insurance Agency

California's wildfire 'season' has become a year‐round proposition and state leaders, scientists, and other stakeholders are looking for solutions. Two efforts currently in play contemplate buildings and structures as an opportunity to improve our communities' fire resilience. Masonry needs to be at the forefront of these discussions, and we are working with our industry partners to put them there. Wildfire Resilient Structures Conference (WIRES) by UC Davis In May 2021 MCAC received an invitation from UC Davis asking about our interest to be part of a fire resilient structures conference that would include building officials, government representatives, architects, engineers, researchers, [...]