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Engineering construction workers reject 8.5% pay offer

Construction Enquirer

Engineering construction workers operating under the Blue Book agreement have overwhelmingly rejected contractors’ final wage increase offer. The employers’ latest two-year offer includes a 8.5% increase in both hourly rates and travel allowance for 2024, followed by a 3.5% ”

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Sparks agree 7% wage increase from 2024

Construction Enquirer

Electricians are set for a 7% wage rise from 2024 after a new pay deal was hammered out by electrical contractors and union Unite under the JIB collective agreement. “This agreement gives us an opportunity to work with Unite on longer-term ambitions to update and modernise the industry to improve skills for a low carbon economy.”

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How to Protect Your Business When Employees Get Poached

Pro Builder

Employers can protect their customer lists, marketing plans, and pricing data from ending up in the hands of competitors by having key employees sign restrictive covenants that prevent them from sharing sensitive or proprietary information. Making the Move to a Competing Employer: Trade Secrets Revealed. Three Most Common Types .

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Tax Reform Impact on Employers and Employees

Revit OpEd

The new federal Tax Bill has many provisions that impact employers with respect to their employees. The Tax Bill has many provisions that impact employers with respect to their employees. Drizner and Michael Lobie. Editor’s note : This blog was originally published as a Client Alert by Seyfarth Shaw LLP.

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How Brexit Will Affect The Construction Industry – Infographics

Lets Build

It is not yet known whether the UK will be able to negotiate its own terms of trade within the EU and other major importers, such as China and the USA, or whether the UK government will have to impose tariffs on cheap materials imported from the UK. Many businesses within the construction industry employ EU labour because it is cheaper.

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#98:  Good Faith Limits on Termination for Convenience

NH Construction Law

They operate very much like “at will” employment contracts, permitting the employer to fire an employee at any time for any (or no) reason as long as some specific public policy is not offended. Such a provision was part of a commercial painting subcontract in Hate to Paint, LLC v.

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Wal-Mart Reaches Settlement with OSHA

Safety Services Company

has entered into a corporate-wide settlement agreement with the U.S. “We hope this sends a strong message that the law requires employers to provide safe working conditions, and OSHA will use all the tools at our disposal to ensure that all employers follow the law.” The settlement agreement can be viewed at [link].

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