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It still looks tough for civils firms, despite fewer pessimists

It still looks tough for civils firms, despite fewer pessimists

Civils firms are still seeing their levels of work dwindle. That’s the main message from the latest survey from their trade body CECA. The survey shows firms were slightly further away from growth in this spring that they were in the winter. Rather than bore you with detail, the graph above (sourced from the CECA survey) shows the balance of civils firms saying workloads improved compared with the previous year against those that saw workload down over the past 10 years. So zero…

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Construction folk take more than the fair share of pain as inflation rises and earnings fall

Construction folk take more than the fair share of pain as inflation rises and earnings fall

With all the fuss about inflation and the impact that it is having on families, I thought I might just take a look at what its impact might be on construction folk. So here are some very crude figures taken from the average weekly earnings non-seasonally adjusted data including bonuses and arrears. Average weekly earnings in construction have dropped 1.1% between November 2007 and November 2010 according to the latest official figures.