Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Massachusetts has hired Brian O’Donnell as director of labor relations. O’Donnell is stepping into the role held by Dave Powell, who is retiring this year after 19 years of service.

O’Donnell will assist AGC members with labor agreement interpretation, jobsite and jurisdictional disputes, mediations and arbitrations; facilitate the negotiations process between the AGC labor relations division and the building trades; and serve as liaison to employers and labor representatives on a daily basis.

O’Donnell most recently was director of the regulatory and compliance division of the office of the inspector general.  For several years prior, he served as assistant attorney general in the fair labor division.  O’Donnell has worked with AGC on the public construction commission implementation task force and most recently on the division of capital asset management and maintenance’s construction law working group.  Prior to work in these offices, Brian was in private practice with Gadsby & Hannah in the design and construction group.