Skills

Organised crime is cashing in on pent-up demand for construction testing, the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has warned. CITB said criminals in London, the Midlands and the North West were exploiting the need for workers during the crisis. It said training providers are allegedly being approached by individual facilitators…

A trade body leader has said the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) must hold a vote on its levy collection next year. A poll on whether the industry backs its collection of the levy for the next three years was delayed for an unspecified period in June, amid the coronavirus…

The Home Office has decided not to adopt a recommendation from its migration committee to relax immigration rules for bricklayers and masons, to encourage them to move to the UK. People working in occupations on the government’s shortage occupation list are given special dispensations under some immigration restrictions in a…

Network Rail is seeking labour-supply agencies that can source workers to help maintain railway infrastructure across the UK, through contracts amounting to £950m. Agency labour will support frontline workers at the government-owned rail operating company across civils, electrification, signalling and track works. Railway track inspections and maintenance will be carried…

Men make up the majority of the construction workforce, so it follows that male attitudes have a great bearing on how women fare in the sector. For example, bias among men, both conscious and unconscious, can greatly influence both the day-to-day experience and the long-term career prospects of women working…

Payroll company Hudson Contract Services has responded to a £27m levy bill from the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), by filing a claim for £28m worth of CITB grants. The levy is collected by the CITB from companies in the sector to provide funds for training. The amount paid is…

Mace chief executive and Construction Leadership Council board member Mark Reynolds has said the industry’s response to racism must change. Reynolds was responding to Construction News’s investigation into racism, published yesterday, which detailed instances of openly racist project managers and revealed black-owned businesses frequently hid their identity because of prejudice.…

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has released a strategic plan for its £827m in income between 2021-2025, before publishing its latest set of accounts. The organisation cancelled the industry consensus vote on the collection of its levy earlier this year stating that it would instead “speak to employers and…

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has delayed publication of its accounts due to the coronavirus crisis. A spokesman for the CITB said the pandemic “has had a major impact on governance”, and its 2019/20 accounts would be signed off “shortly”. The delay came to light as Construction News tried…

The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) is to make 110 employees redundant amid falling revenues. The organisation, which expects its income to fall by a third over the next three years, has opened a formal consultation over the job cuts, which are due to be carried out by the end…