The Heating and Ventilating Contractors’ Association (HVCA) is to set up an approved list of labour agencies.

Those that meet the HVCA’s criteria will be incorporated into a new formal alliance.

The HVCA expects the alliance to launch this spring. Agencies that are part of the framework will be recognised by the HVCA as suitable for use by members.

President John Miller also said the HVCA is still working with the ECA and Select in Scotland to develop a single working rule agreement covering the mechanical and electrical sectors.

“Probably the principal issue yet to be fully resolved is the precise nature of the infrastructure required to administer a combined agreement,” said Miller.

He pointed out that the Joint Industry Board for electrical contracting had “no locus whatsoever as far as the mechanical sector is concerned”.

“HVCA members remain resolute in their belief that a new, purpose-built framework is required to accommodate new relationships, new working practices and new technologies,” he said.

Miller also stressed that this initiative was being treated entirely separately from the discussions on convergence that have been taking place between the ECA and HVCA, around a shared vision of a single body.

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Electrical and Mechanical Contractor