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Unite, the UK’s construction union, is urging employers to relax sick pay rules immediately to help tackle the spread of the coronavirus....

Dozens of more towns and cities, including Dunbar and Glasgow, are to get full-fibre broadband as CityFibre's rollout programme accelerates....

Tarmac has secured a grant from the Scottish government to support plans to expand rail operations at the Dunbar cement plant....

A Northumbrian Water project has shown that dam movement can be monitored remotely, precisely and perpetually....

Consulting engineer Jacobs has completed its £250m acquisition of John Wood Group’s nuclear business....

Construction firm Wates Group has today introduced what could be the construction industry's most progressive package of family-friendly employment policies....

An Employment Tribunal has thrown into question the status of construction industry contractors in a ruling finding that two contractors were in fact employees and should therefore be afforded the...

Two thirds of the UK’s 100 largest construction contractors are failing to meet government targets for paying suppliers, according to new research....

A third construction organisation has written to the chancellor of the exchequer asking for him not to scrap the red diesel tax rebate....

A metal fabricator has been fined nearly £20,000 after an eight-year-old girl was crushed by a steel gate at a south London school....