ONE of WA’s largest utilities has turned retailers and plumbers into a second sales force for its product.For the past six years AlintaGas has been using its AlintaGas-approved gas fitters and retailers to promote its main product – natural gas.
FIVE years after starting her business in the back shed of her home, designer Anna Chandler is operating from a factory in O’Connor and employing 20 staff.
BUSINESS groups and unions are being given the chance to apply for WA Government grants to help pay for work aimed at simplifying awards covering their industries.
A UNION claim for a 36-hour week and a 6 per cent a year pay rise is expected to cause a number of sub contractors in the commercial building industry to go out of business.
LISTED winemaker Evans & Tate has made Australian Wine Holding’s job of selling its Bridgeland Vineyard property easier by reaching an in-principle agreement to lease the property.
THE GST has turned two but the impact of its introduction remains.Cash flow and compliance problems remain the two biggest problems facing businesses post the GST’s introduction.However, other GST issues appear to have settled down.
MORE than 5,000 small retailers around Perth could soon be getting information on a new enterprise bargaining agreement to cover their industry.There are an estimated 6,500 small retailers in Perth.
PLANS for the Perth CBD’s eastern gateway will be announced to the public at 11am on July 7 at Queens Gardens. The public will then have three months to make comments on the plans.
QUESTIONS are being raised about the effectiveness of the national taskforce mooted at the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry.
AN unhappy customer can be a business’s best friend – if they are handled properly.Dissatisfied customers can highlight problems in a company’s customer service and can be turned into ambassadors for the business.
ONE credit management option facing businesses these days is to outsource the debtor book.Factoring houses, and some debt collection agencies, will accept the debtor book in return for about 1 per cent of the value of the invoices it contains.
SENIOR building industry figures are licking their lips at the prospect that CFMEU assistant secretary Joe McDonald will face serious criminal charges when the Cole commission winds up in December.
CONSTRUCTION Forestry Mining and Energy Union secretary Kevin Reynolds claims he is looking forward to giving evidence before the royal commission into the building industry when it comes back to Perth.
The Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry has already offered some potential outcomes that could change the face of WA’s industrial relations landscape.
THE battle to develop a $200 million resort at Mauds Landing on the Ningaloo Reef could well be billed as a stoush between two of WA’s premier artists.
WA contractors could be taken to the cleaners to the tune of $38 million if a Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union push to stop the outsourcing of government school cleaning is successful at the Labor Party’s State
