THREE months after winning a $2.5 million contract to manage BHPBilliton housing in Port Hedland and South Hedland, Delta Facilities Management has been sold to the Compass Group for an undisclosed sum.
MOVES to introduce a crane safety assessment program has raised fears that crane companies without union agreements will be barred from sites and small operators will be locked out of the industry.
A PERTH bicycle manufacturer is starting to break into the lucrative top end of the competitive cycling world with a range of carbon fibre bike forks that are lighter and stronger than most on the market.
AUSTAL Ships, in partnership with Defence Maritime Services, has won preferred tenderer status to build and support the Royal Australian Navy’s 12 new Armidale class patrol boats.
BUILDING accounting firm KPMG’s prominence in the oil and gas industry is one of the key challenges the firm’s new Western Australian chairman, Steve Scudamore (pictured), has set for himself as he ta
COMMERCIAL construction firm Entact Clough, part of listed WA engineering firm Clough Limited, will soon be closing its doors and reopening as Perth Building Company.
A BITTER and costly demar-cation battle between the Australian Workers Union and the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union could be in store for the successful tenderer for the $1.4 billion Perth to Mandurah rail project.
WOODSIDE has reached an out-of-court settlement with the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union that will remove the union from the LNG Train 4 project.
AN enterprise order served on Perth builder Jerry Hanssen on August 15, that follows the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union’s draft enterprise bargaining agreement to the letter, could have a major impact on non-unionised medium-sized
THE battle to get a board seat on listed pharmaceutical company VRI Biomedical was not a factor in Sally Capp’s recent decision to relocate to Melbourne, a point she wants to stress as she serves out her last four months as managing director of Australian
A WESTERN Australian Industrial Appeal court decision has given employers some certainty over how much money to pay workers who have been made redundant.
A 20-YEAR battle waged by three sisters to extricate themselves from a lease on Western Australian Government-owned land in Gosnells, without having to pay a six-figure sum to clean up the site, may b
THE State Government may struggle to pass two crucial bills that it needs to get its proposed deregulation of the State’s electricity industry through on schedule.
A BILL opening the door for gas market deregulation and enshrining in law Western Power’s charging policies for power upgrades in regional Western Australia has been passed by the lower house of State
A NATIONAL push by the Australian Workers Union to force wineries onto a new Federal award does not seem likely to affect producers in Western Australia.
