Clough workers are still ditching projects such as Western Australia’s Waitsia gas plant after the Perth-based engineering group’s sale to Italy’s Webuild because they can make more money elsewhere, unions say.Roberts, is understood to have lost hundreds of workers from its projects around Australia over the past few months due to its collapse and protracted sale negotiations, which culminatedThe Waitsia gas project in WA is among the Clough projects battling to keep workers.
The Italians have taken over most of the company’s contracts, including the $768 million Waitsia gas field expansion, and Clough is advertising for a range of national roles, with 92 ads listed on LinkedIn. “There are still people leaving in reasonable numbers as the pay rates do not reflect the work on a hydrocarbons construction site,” said Ian Gill, an official for the WA branch of the Electrical Trades Union who represents electrical workers on the Waitsia project, which is owned by Mitsui EBlue-collar workers, who are in hot demand in WA’s tight labour market, can double their take-home pay by simply joining other projects under construction.
Webuild is expected to keep the Clough brand and run the engineering and construction group as a subsidiary, retaining Peter Bennett as chief executive. Clough branding remains on project sites such as Waitsia. The Italians are believed to have renegotiated contracts on some Clough projects so they no longer have to be completed on a fixed-price basis, making it easier to recoup unexpected costs.Sources say the Italians’ biggest Australian project, the taxpayer-funded Snowy 2.0 hydropower plant, could end up costing as much as $10 billion, well above the current official estimate of $5.9 billion.Snowy Hydro, the government entity that owns Snowy 2.
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