Posts tagged "subcontractors"

When builders have financial challenges, it is often the subcontractors who bear the brunt.

Australia’s controversial building regulator has managed to help subcontractors get more than $13.5 million in invoices paid over past three years.

Small business subcontractors in NSW could soon start to be paid faster, if a new pilot program being run by the government is adopted across the state.

Grocon is more than a construction business, having found better money-making opportunities in property development and being a landlord.

While the budget allocates billions to getting Australians back into traditional employment, it does little for gig economy workers.

The CMFEU is urging the Berejiklian government to introduce statutory trusts to protect sub-contractors from extended payment times.

Subcontractors are pushing for the federal government to urgently bolster pay protections for sole traders amid an expected increase in insolvencies.

Adelaide-based construction company York Civil has entered voluntary administration, placing significant government infrastructure contracts in doubt.

State consumer watchdogs have welcomed combined penalties of more than $100,000 in two cases of unlicensed building operators in South Austr…

After a convincing win in Saturday’s state election, Western Australian premier-elect Mark McGowan says he will hit the ground running to im…

The security of payments for subcontractors in the building and construction sector are again in the spotlight after Western Australian buil…

The collapse of Bob Day’s home building firms highlights the urgent need to better protect subcontractors in the construction industry, ac…