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Industry alarmed by plan to ban retention practice in late payment crackdown
Digital Edition: Industry alarmed by plan to ban retention practice in late payment crackdown
BPF chief executive Melanie Leech said government's planned ban on retention payments, sums withheld from construction contractors until a job is completed, would be using "a sledgehammer to crack a nut".
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