McNicholas Construction Services has become the last Kier company to be readmitted to the prompt payment code (PPC). In November 2019, five Kier businesses including McNicholas were suspended from the code for failing to pay 95 per cent of invoices within 60 days. Since then, the other four Kier-owned firms including Kier Construction, Kier Infrastructure, Kier Highways and Kier Integrated Services have been readmitted after improving their performances, with Integrated Services, added in August, the most recent. Interim Small Business Commissioner Philip King said Kier had worked to remodel its finance and payment processes including a major commitment to the quicker payment of small business debtors.