Not a good look. I wonder did he go because this was going to come to light?
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I dont see how revenue would allow people to have it both ways. "Oh you were contracting for years but claim now that you were actually an employee the whole time? Well as well as getting your stautory benefits, you owe us a heap of back-tax..."
She said it had been announced on October 11th that he'd be a speaker.
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Has he already been paid for it...?
He's trying to decide which one to go for from the many offers he's received.
Has Tubrity got himself a new job yet?
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I see Tubs has backed out of the headline speaking event he was meant to do.
Bit of a strange article by Ellen Coyne. Talks about the event in different tenses. Makes it sound like its upcoming, but also says its on Oct 11th.
Good. Hope it's cos he was afraid of being asked about the 150k. Media should be relentless about this.
7 years!!!!
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This stuff has been going on since the era of Uncle Gaybo and Mike Murphy.
It seems even sadder and more obsessed to me that someone who seemingly has no interest in hearing the "same talking points repeated" on the subject of Tubridy and RTE would go to the bother of reading the thread or posting on it at all.
Unless you had some new angle or update to share?
If you wanted to avoid the subject you could just ..... ya know.... not bother opening the thread? Or posting in it? But you took the time to and continue to.... Curious.
Would the 'contractors' be liable for income tax/PRIS on all their fee income as well? The revnue could have a field day on RTE and the bogus employees in that case.
He's doing great apart from the shite guests
So you think this thread should be close so that we should have some peace and get on with our day?
It seems with 30% of people who normal pay their license fee that they haven't moved on.
It is terrible to think that other people go on a opinion thread to tell other what they should be thinking about, but offer no actual opinion on the subject other than in the context of all the other issues we should really just move on and let RTÉ continue as is, They do a fine job after all? right?
Load of rubbishy Tubs stories in the tabloids recently.
NK Media have to justify their fees I guess.
Tubridy has cancelled his appearance at the Women and Agriculture conference.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/10/24/ryan-tubridy-withdraws-from-women-and-agriculture-conference/
However, Ms Martin admitted that no financial provision has been set aside to compensate the workers for the entitlements that they were denied.
Likely because they have already been compensated for the entitlements that they were denied, since in general contractors are paid higher than employees to offset the lack of sick / holiday pay, and the lack of pension and health insurance etc. Contractors are supposed to pay for these things themselves out of their higher earnings.
Contractors also have mechanisms to avail of certain tax benefits not available to employees.
Would be some laugh if these contractors manage to get themselves contract rates for all their years of work for RTE and then retrospectively also get the employee benefits, a nice windfall for them, and THAT would be scandalous. Though it seems Imelda Munster doesn't understand this at all based on her quote in the article. It is a bit concerning how poor an understanding of these things some of our politicians and journalists have.
Vietnam!
I could understand those that died somewhat but not yet born? Where did they send the money?
Well I suppose RTÉ just got rid of AERTEL!
I knew a lad who used to work in the Army payroll department when they computerised it. He would be full of tales about discovering people being paid who had died and others who had yet to be born!
I think it is a 3 year contract.
A few are still in RTÉ e.g. they don't have a stills department anymore so there is a guy on linked in whos still with RTÉ since 1976... now it could be he's still there they just don't know it and the stills department full title is
I AM STILLS HERE BUT THEY DON'T KNOW DEPARTMENT
2,517 is to the number of RTE Employees on LinkedIn, when I last looked.
Not sure which chatshow you were watching but the one I saw last Friday night was actually very decent. PK had a strange mix of guests from Jean Claude Van Damme to Liam Brady, to James Blunt to a transwoman and he handled them all expertly. There wasn't one awkward moment or conversational cul de sac.
As for being funny, he's constantly slipping in little quips which go down well with both the audience and guests. Let's be honest, he 10x times funnier than Pat Kenny and he exists in another stratosphere of funny to Ryan "Oh Geewilikers" Tubridy.
My guess is RTE will be begging him to renew but he'll be absolutely sick of the poor guests, travelling back n forth and will probably be getting signed up to something better which will mean he'll decide not to renew.
One aspect lost about this is that the true number employed is not 1,800 approx. When you add in the reclassified 'self-employed' it is 2,500! A means of keeping the true figure hidden?
Also, these guys know full well that they are contractors. Sure they would have companies and be submitting invoices each month...
I'd ... assume... that if your license fee is up to date you won't have to pay the household fee.
You have to remember An Post won't want to give up the collection and the government know removing it from An Post would potentially be political suicide.
Really An Post should be asked why they can't collect the fee fully, even if 50% of the 15% that don't normally pay don't have a TV, how are you not able to collect the 7.5% that should be collected. And also since 2000 has the evasion rate increase and has it made any difference to the avoidance rate. IMO that 15% non-collection has been their since the 1990s.
Or worse, pay for a licence fee and then the govt turn around and institute some inescapable broadcasting charge that you have to pay as well.
Yeah, id say critical mass has been reached with the licenses, will only snowball more from now.
Re: the bogus self employed thing. I am a contractor. I work with companies on contracts for a day rate. I do not get paid for sick days nor do i get other entitlements like pension etc. I don't expect to either. I may get some other benefit, discounted canteen, invite to xmas party, free food and drink etc., but its at the company's discretion. Contracts are generally 3/6/12 months long and then reviewed. If you're no longer required, bye, and good luck. In return, my rate is over and above what an employee would get - that's the tradeoff.
To be creaming it for years at high rates and then complain about 'statutory benefits' takes some neck. Then again, nothing that RTE or RTE people do seems to surprise me anymore...
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