Skills

Almost a third of EU nationals working in the construction industry have considered leaving the UK because of Brexit uncertainty, a survey has found. 

Recruitment company Randstad carried out a survey of 10,500 industry workers of all nationalities. Of the 1,671 EU nationals surveyed, 32 per cent said they had considered departing the…

Payroll company Hudson Contract Services has lost a High Court appeal over its eligibility to pay the industry’s training levy.

The firm, which had been told to pay £7.9m to the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), argued it should not have been subject to the levy because it did not qualify…

Construction industry trade bodies have called on the government to relax proposed immigration rules for people with skills in 18 construction-related occupations.

A total of nine bodies, including Build UK, the Federation of Master Builders and the National Federation of Builders, have released a joint statement calling for the government to…

A man who made and sold fake CSCS cards online has been jailed for more than three years.

Andrew Weeks pleaded guilty to the manufacture of fake documents and was sentenced to three years and eight months at Warwickshire Crown Court last Friday. An investigation by Warwickshire County Council Trading Standards…

Carillion was recruiting workers from Portugal and Greece to plug skills gaps on the troubled Aberdeen bypass project before the company went into liquidation in January.

CN has been told that the contractor carried out recruitment drives in both countries to bring more engineers and project managers onto the £745m Aberdeen Western…