A new plan aims to tackle criminal behavior and cultural issues in the construction sector by requiring builders to report and address criminal activity on government sites.
Builders will be contractually obligated to report and address criminal behavior on government construction sites as part of a plan to combat deeply rooted cultural issues within unions. A new alliance will also monitor unlawful activity on worksites with a streamlined “one doorway” approach to handling complaints following a review of the troubled construction sector.
The final report by investigator Greg Wilson into the sector and the government’s response was released on Wednesday, warning that issues are so ingrained that “stronger interventions may still be needed” beyond the proposed changes.Key recommendations include requiring Victorian government construction contracts to mandate principal builders report suspected criminal activity and, where possible, address the behavior. This has been supported by the government.A new referral body will be established for builders and the government construction sector more broadly for the submission of such reports. Another recommendation accepted in principle was the creation of a new “alliance” involving federal agencies to address crime on government construction sites.Industrial Relations Victoria will coordinate Victorian government law enforcement and regulators to participate in the alliance, in consultation with the federal government. “Cultural and administrative changes will move more quickly than law reform, and Victoria needs to be well-positioned to capitalize on any change,” the report states. “The review’s recommendations to create a complaints’ referral body and an Alliance are designed to be flexible enough to be implemented in the short term, to allow Victorian agencies to work with Commonwealth agencies and the CFMEU administration while their work is ongoing. “However, the issues that led to this review are entrenched problems, and the review is aware that there is a risk that stronger interventions may still be neede
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