You can find our media releases and contact details for our media team in our news and media section.

The ABCC can assist with building work as defined by the BCIIP Act and the Code, which includes most commercial construction activities.

Building work does not include activities associated with the construction, repair or restoration of domestic housing, except if the project is part of a development that consists of at least five single-dwelling houses.

The ABCC cannot assist with domestic issues including:

• Contractual disputes between homeowners and builders
• Fencing disputes
• Domestic construction defects.

There are state, territory and local government organisations that may be able to help you.

The ABCC cannot assist with issues related to licensing or building permits.

There are state, territory and local government organisations that may be able to help you.

Wages and entitlements complaint form

Employee details

Please provide the details of the employee who needs assistance with their wages or entitlements. If you are filling out this form on your own behalf, these are your details.

Employer details

You may find some of these details on the employer’s business letter, your payslips or PAYG summary.

Details of request

Confidentiality

In the course of managing your request, we may want to contact your employer by phone or in writing to request specific information about your employment and/or discuss your allegation. This will result in your employer being made aware that you have made a request for assistance about them.

If you do not give us permission to contact your employer, we:

will not contact you again after you make the report

may use the information you give us to plan our current and future education and enforcement activities

are authorised to give information to other Commonwealth, State or Territory bodies where it is likely to help with the administration or enforcement of a law.

Submission

By submitting this form, you declare that the details you have provided are correct to the best of your knowledge.

You acknowledge that the Australian Building and Construction Commission may disclose or authorise to disclose information likely to assist in the administration or enforcement of a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory. This includes referring your request, or aspects of your request, including any information obtained while investigating your request, to other relevant government agencies, including state/territory agencies, where issues fall within their area(s) of responsibility.

Privacy

The ABCC may collect your personal information to assist with your query, action any complaint you make or for quality assurance.

This page is hosted on a secure cloud platform supplied by a third party supplier certified by the Australian Signals Directorate to store unclassified Commonwealth data.

For more information about how the ABCC might use your personal information, how to access or correct your personal information or how to make a complaint, please refer to our privacy page.

The ABCC's jurisdiction only extends to building industry participants and building work, as defined in the BCIIP Act and Code.

The Fair Work Ombudsman may be able to assist with other enquiries related to wages or entitlements.

We have developed a WRMP Form to help tenderers develop compliant Workplace Relations Management Plans (WRMPs) for Commonwealth funded building work.

Please follow the instructions on the WRMP Form to develop and submit your WRMP.

Please review the information for Building Code contractors in our tendering section.

To submit your enterprise agreement for assessment against the requirements of the 2016 Code, use our form: ABCC Building Code 2016 - Request for Preliminary Advice/Letter of Compliance.

Online contact form

Please include as much detail as possible about your situation so we can assist you promptly. All fields are optional, but if you provide more information it will be easier for us to help you.

You can remain anonymous if you want to, but this will limit our ability to assist you.

The ABCC is committed to promoting and maintaining an organisation free from fraud and corruption. If you suspect or are aware of any fraudulent or corrupt activity internal to the ABCC (e.g. ABCC staff or contractors) or external to the ABCC or within our jurisdictions, let us know.

The ABCC has adopted the definition of fraud as ‘dishonestly obtaining a benefit, or causing loss, by deception or other means. While not an exhaustive list, examples of the types of conduct that may constitute fraud include:

• theft
• unlawful use of, or unlawful obtaining of, property, equipment, material or services 
• providing false or misleading information to the Commonwealth, or failing to provide information when there is an obligation to do so
• corruption of a tender process
• making, or using, false, forged or falsified documents
• wrongfully using Commonwealth information or intellectual property.

If available, the information reported should include:

• details and dates of the suspected incident, including actions or activities suspected to be fraudulent or corrupt, including how, when and where the activity occurred
• details about the person/s involved, such as names, phone numbers, addresses, and relevant organisations 
• the value (if known) of the alleged fraudulent activity
• contact details (individuals may choose to remain anonymous).

You can report suspicions of fraud and corruption in writing to the ABCC Fraud Control Officer.

Email: ABCCFraudReporting@abcc.gov.au
Postal address: Fraud Control Officer
                             Australian Building and Construction Commission
                             Level 4, 509 St Kilda Road
                             Melbourne VIC 3004