Construction workers told of impending €3bn State spend

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EMPLOYERS who don’t adhere to the highest employment standards will be excluded from lucrative Government contracts as recovery and spending steps up, a builders’ seminar was told last week.

The warning was given as a national review of Government contracts comes in, which will reduce a widely criticised risk-bearing burden on contractors, introduced in 2007.