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Industry Insights
What Infrastructure Project Managers Actually Want From a Labour Hire Partner
Read MoreAustralia is grappling with a labour shortage that’s only going to get worse in the coming years. In fact, worker shortages are expected to peak at about 300,000 in mid-202...
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Industry Insights
What Your Labour Hire Agency Should Be Doing About Fatigue Management (But Most Aren't)
Read MoreConstruction, infrastructure, logistics, and manufacturing are some fields where operations tend to go on round-the-clock. It means employing labour in rotating shifts to ...
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Industry Insights
Payrolling vs. Traditional Labour Hire: Which Model Actually Saves You Time and Risk?
Read MoreModern infrastructure project environments are fast-moving, high-risk, and resource-intensive. Whether it’s a new construction, transport upgrade, or utilities work, proje...
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Industry Insights
Your First Day on a Major Infrastructure Project: What to Expect and How to Impress
Read MoreWorking on a major infrastructure project is a matter of prestige. It adds to your resume and sets your career on a growth path. But when you’re assigned to such a project...
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Industry Insights
Brisbane Olympics 2032: Beating Labour Gaps to Meet Infrastructure Surge
Read More The Brisbane Olympics and Paralympic Games may seem far away. But they already pose major challenges for Queensland’s construction industry.With several projects, i...
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Industry Insights
“More Than Just a Number”: What Genuine Employee Care Actually Looks Like on Site
Read MoreAustralia has over 1.1 millionsite employees, making up about 7.6% of the workforce. Of these, 21% are employed in the construction industry. Specifically, 11% operate as...
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Industry Insights
The 2026 Safety Standard: New Regulations in Tunnelling and Rail Maintenance Every Victorian Site Manager Needs to Know
Read MoreMajor infrastructure projects like the Metro Tunnel, Western Sydney Airport Metro, and North East Link are changing the face of Victoria and New South Wales.These multi-bi...
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Industry Insights
The Hidden Cost of a Bad Hire in Civil Construction: Productivity, Safety and Delays
Read MoreIn today’s civil construction and infrastructure environment, hiring decisions carry more weight than ever. Projects are under pressure from tight timelines, cost escalatio...
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Industry Insights
The Cost of the Trade Shortage: Why Infrastructure Electricians Are the New Gold
Read MoreAcross NSW and Victoria, major infrastructure investment is accelerating at a rate unmatched by workforce growth. Rail expansions, tunnelling corridors and large-scale roa...
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Industry Insights
Infrastructure Skills Gap: Why 197,000 Workers Are Needed by 2025 (and what hiring teams can do about it)
Read MoreAustralia is in the midst of a once-in-a-generation infrastructure boom. But ambitious pipelines of roads, rail, energy and utilities projects are bumping against a hard ...
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Community & Partnerships
CONNECT PEOPLE SIGNS “THE PLEDGE” WITH SOLDIER ON
Read MoreConnect People are proud to announce an exciting new partnership with Soldier On as a Bronze Pledge Partner.Founded in 2012, Soldier On has grown into Australia’s only n...
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Community & Partnerships
Connect People appoints Indigenous Ambassador, Dean Rioli
Read MoreConnect People are proud to announce the engagement of Dean Rioli as our Indigenous Ambassador.Dean is committed to improving Indigenous health and wellbeing, working to r...
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Community & Partnerships
SUPPORTING BACKPACKS 4 VIC KIDS
Read MoreConnect People is proud and excited to be actively supporting Backpacks 4 VIC Kids, a registered not-for-profit charitable organisation run by volunteers.Their purpose is ...
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Project Milestones
CONNECT PEOPLE ENGAGED ON MONASH FREEWAY UPGRADE – STAGE 2
Read MoreConnect People is excited to be a supplier to CPB Contractors – Monash Upgrade (Stage 2). Connect People is proud to be involved with the project.Image courtesy of Majo...
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Project Milestones
CONNECT PEOPLE SUPPORTS RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE ALLIANCE (RIA)
Read MoreConnect People is excited to be a supplier to Rail Infrastructure Alliance (RIA), the last major contract awarded as part of the Metro Tunnel project. The RIA consortium ...
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Industry Insights
LABOUR HIRE LICENSING IS HERE
Read MoreLabour Hire Providers operating in the state of Victoria must now hold a Labour Hire License (LHL) to operate legally under the Labour Hire Licensing Act 2018 (Vic). The l...
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Project Milestones
CONNECT PEOPLE ENGAGED ON MONASH UPGRADE
Read MoreConnect People is excited to be a part of an exciting Victorian infrastructure initiative – the Monash Freeway Upgrade Project. Supplying workforce services to principal ...
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Project Milestones
CONNECT PEOPLE APPOINTED TO RAVENSWOOD INTERCHANGE
Read MoreConnect People is proud to confirm our appointment as a supplier of labour hire to the Ravenswood Interchange Project. Work on the $46 million interchange started in May,...
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Project Milestones
NORTH MCKINNON CENTRE LCRP MILESTONE
Read MoreAfter 37 days of round-the-clock construction, the Level Crossing Removal Authority has successfully removed three level crossings at North, McKinnon and Centre Roads in O...
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Project Milestones
BURKE ROAD LEVEL CROSSING REMOVAL
Read MoreSince mid-2015, Connect People has proudly been supplying services to John Holland and KBR as part of the Burke Road Level Crossing Removal.On 13 January 2016 the old boom...