PAYMENT NIGGLES

摘要

As an inveterate campaigner against payment abuse, there are certain things which still make me boil over with frustration. Apparently the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) - a government-appointed body - has decided to re-launch the Supply Chain Payment Charter. This was originally launched by the business department on 22 April 2013 and, to date, has two signatures. Why my frustration? To believe that a charter -without more - will dislodge an embedded mindset of payment abuse and manipulation is, at best, the height of naivety and at worst, deliberate avoidance of meaningful action. Over nine years ago the (then) Office of Government Commerce issued a payment charter for public sector projects. Three years later it was realised that it had not made one iota of difference. It was abandoned.