Business Matters
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CFMEU: Morrison seeks to entrench exploitation of overseas workers
The CFMEU warns that recommendations made by the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Migration are built on false assumptions and faulty data and would further entrench exploitation ... -
Building surveyor cautioned over deficient documents – Modesto Giancaspro
The Building Services board has cautioned a local government building surveyor for failing to ensure that adequate information was included in the certification of work at ... -
Delegates invited to the Timber Offsite Construction event
The Timber Offsite Construction conference, formerly the Frame Australia conference, will be a hybrid event in 2021, combining in-person and online participation for both speakers and ... -
VBA: Building permit bounce back a sign of industry rebound
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Victoria’s building industry had a strong 2020 and recorded the highest level of permit approvals in the past two decades. The Victorian ... -
Sentence for fake information about asbestos-contaminated waste disposal
Paul Mouawad, who was paid nearly a quarter of a million to take asbestos-contaminated soil to a lawful landfill has been handed a one-year term of ... -
Master Builders: Apprentice wage subsidy extension an economic boost
Master Builders Australia has celebrated the Federal Government’s 50% apprentice and trainee wage subsidy, saying it will create new job opportunities in the industry and lead ... -
Agreement to boost Indigenous participation in construction
BESIX Watpac has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a leading NSW Indigenous business group to boost participation by First Nations people in the construction industry. ... -
WorkSafe Vic: Let’s be very clear about workplace sexual harassment
WorkSafe is encouraging all Victorian employers and workers to make it their business to stamp out workplace sexual harassment, launching the Let’s Be Very Clear campaign. ... -
ANZ construction industry leads regional COVID-19 recovery
Autodesk has announced the findings for its latest IDC InfoBrief, a survey which has found that Australian and New Zealand construction companies are most advanced when ... -
ACIF: lifting female participation in construction industry a priority
The Australian Construction Industry Forum (ACIF) has said that the construction industry has to do more to lift female participation in all sectors and that it ...
