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  • 08-04-2011 10:57am
    #1
    who what when
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 831 ✭✭✭


    My old man is fairly good friends with a local blocklayer who like all tradespeople is finding it hard to get work at the moment!
    Anyway a while back a guy gave him a set of plans looking for a price.
    The blocklayer gave him the price and a few weeks later contacted the guy to see what the story was. Turns out he was undercut by 25%.
    Fair enough you say thats how a free market works.

    Now fast forward another few weeks with the job in progress some revenue people called to the site and interviewed the lads laying the blocks. Turns out they were all on the dole (3 of them i think).
    Anyway the fella building the house believes the local blocklayer is the one who reported them (dunno if he did or not but wouldnt be surprised) and this has turned into a massive row between them.

    What do people think of this? I reckon fair play to him if he did report them. He should actually be given a reward. But i know lots of people who have the total opposite view too!


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  • #2
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Fair play to him. I don't pay tax so some builder can get rich by underpaying his staff whilst I pay the rest of their salaries.


  • #3
    RichardAnd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,934 ✭✭✭RichardAnd


    is there real evidence to support the accusation being made against the spurned brickie or is it simply the owner's belief? It sound very much like the latter.

    Anyway, this is a situiation I have heard of before now. Working whilst being on the dole is wrong yes, but I do know people on the dole who do a few nixers because, quite simply, they need the money. This, whilst perhaps not honest, is perfectly understandable.

    What is not right is an employer paying lower wages to workers on the dole and if indeed it was the origional builder that blew the whistle, then he was right to do it.


  • #4
    Doinker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭Doinker


    RichardAnd wrote: »
    is there real evidence to support the accusation being made against the spurned brickie or is it simply the owner's belief? It sound very much like the latter.

    Anyway, this is a situiation I have heard of before now. Working whilst being on the dole is wrong yes, but I do know people on the dole who do a few nixers because, quite simply, they need the money. This, whilst perhaps not honest, is perfectly understandable.

    What is not right is an employer paying lower wages to workers on the dole and if indeed it was the origional builder that blew the whistle, then he was right to do it.

    You may say its "not honest", the law says it social welfare fraud and illegal. Most people in the country could do with extra money after job losses/reduced hours/reduced pay/increased taxes etc, but that isn't a licence to commit fraud.

    Doing a nixer is one thing, but working for a contractor building a house can hardly be described as a nixer. It's full time employment. If it was the original builder or someone else who informed the revenue they did the right thing. This 'nod and a wink' culture has got the country into enough trouble.


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