Hi jmason
I worked in Melbourne & had to have Victoria plumbers, drivers, disconnect/reconnect & arctick licenses. I could only imagine the SA company would be using Melbourne sub contractors to do the work. That would mean the SA company takes the cream. Perhaps your company could consider tendering large contracts in SA and use subbies to do the work, this would be business which is cut throat some times. There could also be some prompting to the union/inspectors to ensure all work laws are complied to. These difficulties and very low profit margin could deter continued loss of contracts to SA. Winning and loosing these big contracts can be dire for the techs as when a big contract is lost there could be job shedding. I have experienced this redundancy twice in the last five years so I know it can be very concerning. This hurts the last time was only 8 weeks ago and I have no job and are living on my savings which has nearly run out.