Boosting wages will not fix industry’s labour shortage crisis, Mace boss warns

By Tom Lowe2021-10-06T05:00:00

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Increasing the wages of construction workers would not solve the industry’s labour shortage crisis, the chief executive of Mace has said.

Mark Reynolds said the construction sector already “pays pretty well compared to most” and denied that the industry is reliant on cheap foreign labour.

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