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Contractors are now being strangled on two fronts
The only certainties in life may be death and taxes, but for contractors there is the risk of another constant: high costs and low margins.
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Bogus workers and the hidden threat of site card fraud
A recent case has highlighted an emerging problem: bogus or fraudulently obtained skills cards are being used by workers to access sites. Binyamin Ali investigates the true scale of the problem – and how the industry is fighting back.
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Construction News digital edition – 16 November 2018
Fake Skills: Fraudulent cards – industry fights back as crime rings prosper
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The Environment Agency and subcontractor Cain Bio-Engineering have called on a 22 m long-reach Komatsu PC 340 from hirer HE Services for flood defence work at the River Rother in Rye, East Sussex.The work requires reprofiling of the existing river bank and construction of a 120 m brushwood mattress.To drive the 2,500 wooden posts for the mattress, HE designed a bespoke post clamp. According to the Environment Agency, doing the job from dry land enabled the contractor to shave three ...