For the construction industry to flourish and achieve its undoubted potential, there are a number of critical issues with affect its business environment…
From the performance of our local councils in terms of making speedy decisions on planning applications, to the need for planning policy to have within it an economic ‘golden thread’, to issues around tax and the National Living Wage, to the need to have a competitive employment law framework in Northern Ireland, it is critical that the Executive stays on top of those issues which impact on the industry’s competitiveness in the increasingly global economy.
From 1 April 2019 CSR will no longer issue any new or renewal General Construction Operative (GCO) cards. GCO cards issued up to 31 March 2019 will continue to be valid for 4 years from the date of the health and safety training.
Conrad Smyth, Account Director at Federation Patron Willis Towers Watson, has put together a briefing on addressing cyber risk in the construction industry.
On Wednesday the Government produced guidance on how it proposes to avoid a hard border between NI/Republic in a no-deal scenario, and the temporary tariff regime on imports that it would take forward.
