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Coronavirus prompts union to call for sick pay rules to be immediately relaxed
Unite has urged that sick pay rules, potentially affecting 100,000’s of workers on the UK’s biggest infrastructure projects, be immediately relaxed to help tackle spread of coronavirus. -
Scotland sees 25% increase in affordable homes completed in 2019
Number of new build homes started in Scotland in the year to September 2019 tops highest annual figure since 2007. -
Budget must highlight importance of infrastructure to UK economy
Notwithstanding ongoing concerns over coronavirus, the chancellor’s first budget this week must provide a boost infrastructure investment. -
Wates announces new wave of progressive family-friendly policies
Wates announces complete overhaul of its family-friendly policies, boosting parental leave and introducing carer’s leave for the first time. -
Jacobs completes £250m acquisition of Wood Nuclear
Acquisition brings 2,000 employees into Jacobs business, with plans to recruit up to 400 more highly-skilled staff over the next year. -
New technologies could offer cheapest route to net zero, says NIC report
Increased investment in new technologies could be the best way to help reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to a new report by the National Infrastructure Commission. -
Red diesel rebate axe to cost construction up to £490m a year, says CECA
Civils contractors have warned that cutting the rebate on red diesel will cost the UK’s construction industry between £280m to £490m a year. -
TransPennine Express managing director Leo Goodwin steps down
TPE managing director Leo Goodwin left the business suddenly on 5 March to “pursue opportunities outside the group.” -
Construction ready to start at HS2’s Birmingham interchange station site
Preparatory work has almost been completed and now major structures are being put in place on the site of HS2’s new Birmingham interchange station. -
Government backs cleaner planes, ships and cars with £37m boost
Four new centres of excellence will help to design, test and manufacture electric machines in some of the UK’s most polluting industries.