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ABCC Update 26/9/17
Nigel Hadgkiss, head of the ABCC has been forced to resign after admitting to contravening the Fair Work Act. The very act he is supposed to enforce. The ABCC published incorrect information regarding “right of entry” for two years. When this issue was brought to...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...
Crane Collapse Sydney Harbour 29/8/17
At around 1pm on August 29 a 200 tonne Luffing Crane situated on a Barge in Sydney Harbour (Just near the entrance to Luna Park) was lifting a 10 tonne concrete anchor block when suddenly the cable snapped dropping the load into the harbour. The other half of the...