More Queensland construction workers to get at least $200k a year under BPIC

Already a subscriber?The Queensland government has increased the minimum pay for the average construction worker on civil projects to more than $200,000 a year and extended its coverage to more works.for transport will cover rail and road projects worth up to $890 million where it requires contractors pay CW5 construction workers $191,086 a year and up to $201,694 when counting income protection and redundancy fund pay, an industry analysis found.

“Since the implementation of BPIC, we have seen an increase in militant union activity on civil construction projects, increased costs and declining productivity,” he said.“The Queensland government’s BPIC are not just quarantined to government projects. They overflow into the private industry, adding cost to housing-enabling infrastructure and housing construction at a time when there is a shortage of housing and a cost-of-living crisis.

The CFMEU argues that BPIC has been “bastardised” on transport and main road projects because it is not mandatory. It claims “cut-price companies deliberately price the job low to win the contract and then price-gouge the government through the life of the project, leading to massive cost blowouts and waste”.

He also disputed the suggestion BPIC projects did not have cost blowouts, pointing to the BPIC-covered $45 million M1 freeway upgrade in South Brisbane that wasQueensland Premier Steve Miles said this week that “the terms and conditions in the BPICs represent the prevailing EBA rates in the industry”.

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