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construction work

  • 18-10-2014 9:30pm
    #1
    duckcfc
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 616 ✭✭✭


    Don't know if this is in the right place but thought I'd post here anyway.

    I've a cousin who's returning home from oz after xmass and he's been asking me what the situation is like back here in home in construction work in and around galway or even Dublin mainly plastering and tiling.

    He's been saying a few out there have been coming home as their visa run out but hadn't renewed seeing as things have been picking up again here.

    Can anyone tell me what the situation is with construction work in and around where yous live.


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  • #2
    paul1969
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭paul1969


    dublin and every where is brutal agencies give u work for very low money no holiday pay no entitlements of any description Enda kenny stopped unions from fixing a union rate to get us to work for nothing to get his schools built .There is no fixed rates of pay or travel money or nothing they pay you what they want i came back here its a joke


  • #3
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    paul1969 wrote: »
    dublin and every where is brutal agencies give u work for very low money no holiday pay no entitlements of any description Enda kenny stopped unions from fixing a union rate to get us to work for nothing to get his schools built .There is no fixed rates of pay or travel money or nothing they pay you what they want i came back here its a joke


    Why should you be paid to travel to work when nobody else in the country is?? Tbh travel money is a farce!!


  • #4
    hexosan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭hexosan


    theemigrant wrote: »
    Why should you be paid to travel to work when nobody else in the country is?? Tbh travel money is a farce!!

    All our politicians spring to mind


  • #5
    antiskeptic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭antiskeptic


    paul1969 wrote: »
    they pay you what they want

    .. which is kind of par for the course in any number of sectors. It's called market rates, which, in a slump will go down. Just as in the boom they went, for some remarkably and for many more, tidily, up.

    I recall folk jumping ship during the boom because there was 3-5 grand extra a year to be had by the labour-strapped business next door.

    Them war the years. Otherwise, business as usual for Oirland.


  • #6
    O.A.P
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭O.A.P


    duckcfc wrote: »
    Don't know if this is in the right place but thought I'd post here anyway.

    I've a cousin who's returning home from oz after xmass and he's been asking me what the situation is like back here in home in construction work in and around galway or even Dublin mainly plastering and tiling.

    He's been saying a few out there have been coming home as their visa run out but hadn't renewed seeing as things have been picking up again here.

    Can anyone tell me what the situation is with construction work in and around where yous live.
    Its better than it has been for 3 years but still slow enough .
    Work is not impossible to get anymore
    theemigrant wrote: »
    Why should you be paid to travel to work when nobody else in the country is?? Tbh travel money is a farce!!
    If you are lucky enough to get a job with any construction firm you will be aware that the faster you work shorter the job lasts . So to keep good people on the books they pay enough money for them to sleep away from home if needed .


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  • #7
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    O.A.P wrote: »
    Its better than it has been for 3 years but still slow enough .
    Work is not impossible to get anymore


    If you are lucky enough to get a job with any construction firm you will be aware that the faster you work shorter the job lasts . So to keep good people on the books they pay enough money for them to sleep away from home if needed .


    Im a q.s, i understand the process i just dont agree with it


  • #8
    paul1969
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭paul1969


    theemigrant wrote: »
    Im a q.s, i understand the process i just dont agree with it

    agencies have good men in every town theres a job in in ireland so they don't have to pay accom. or travel if they get a few months out of ya there happy they let u go for a few weeks so they dont have to give u holiday pay or anything


  • #9
    paul1969
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15 ✭paul1969


    theemigrant wrote: »
    Why should you be paid to travel to work when nobody else in the country is?? Tbh travel money is a farce!!

    its different on the building for agencies u could be on 3 different sites in 3 different counties in a week youl,d be nearly be out money


  • #10
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    paul1969 wrote: »
    its different on the building for agencies u could be on 3 different sites in 3 different counties in a week youl,d be nearly be out money

    We refuse to use agency guys.... Purely because there unreliable and have terrible attitudes


  • #11
    cork2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭cork2


    theemigrant wrote: »
    We refuse to use agency guys.... Purely because there unreliable and have terrible attitudes

    We avoid them like the plague for exactly the same reason, BUT having seen in the past how the agencies treat them to an extent I understand the cause of the attitude. I still won't pay for it though.


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  • #12
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,068 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    cork2 wrote: »
    We avoid them like the plague for exactly the same reason, BUT having seen in the past how the agencies treat them to an extent I understand the cause of the attitude. I still won't pay for it though.

    Cousin gave a week wit one and got absolutely rode!!


  • #13
    mikiejon
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭mikiejon


    i worked for agencies they are parasites.


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