Change Branch
Turnbull’s building industry regulator admits breach of the very laws he oversees
The Turnbull Government has been dealt a major blow in the Federal Court today after the head of its building industry watchdog, Nigel Hadgkiss admitted breaching the legislation he is meant to enforce. Hadgkiss, the head of the Australian Building and Construction...
Lives at risk: call for national mandatory asbestos training for apprentices and tradies
The Construction, Forestry Mining and Energy Union has called for mandatory national training on asbestos safety for all tradespeople. It comes after the publication of a Curtin University study finding that three out of four tradespeople cannot identify asbestos in a...
CFMEU supports cladding Inquiry recommendations to regulate for safety
The Construction, Forestry Mining and Energy Union has welcomed the call for a total Australian ban on dangerous cladding by a Senate Committee Inquiry into the highly flammable and life-threatening polyethylene core aluminium cladding. “We welcome the report’s...
Court finds Boral company acted illegally over worker threats on Turnbull’s unfair Building Code
A Court has found that management of a Boral concreting subsidiary, De Martin and Gasparini, acted illegally in threatening to make its workers redundant because they didn’t have an agreement that was Code compliant. On Friday, the Federal Court found that the company...