Letters editor
Subcontractors need wage protection
Almost on cue, another prominent builder goes bust a week before the Easter break, leaving hundreds of unsuspecting subcontractors owed millions and with little or no prospect of recovering even a small proportion of the monies owed to them (“Just the beginning: more builders face collapse, subbies say”, March 29).
The economic and emotional impact on subcontractors and their families from these all-too-familiar collapses cannot be overstated. Many of the subbies affected by the collapse last week of Victorian builder Project Group will have received numerous promises of payment for work done months earlier. These payments will in many cas…
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