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Offline Wal

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Fellow Practitioner Issue 285 Dated 18 December 2015
« on: December 18, 2015, 06:16:26 AM »
It's been reported cash trade jobs, crimes, wages under the table and online trading are costing the Government more than $7 billion a year in lost tax. Read what the Inland Revenue are doing about it and how it affects us.

It seems to be our apprenticeships are being developed to meet a training model developed by the Government which is simply a failure, but the training industry has been developed around it such as the business of the Industry Training Organisations scheme which is just a bottomless pit for government funded bureaucracy. Can it be changed?

Everyone at the Federation and Fellow Practitioner which you a happy festive season and look forward to the hearing from you all in the New Year.

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Re: Fellow Practitioner Issue 285 Dated 18 December 2015
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2015, 09:48:42 AM »
hi guys, this from the Fellow Practitioner today.
...This bloke, a self confessed academic builder, asked me if I would be prepared to sign off a PS3 (producer statement) for his plumbing to a new house he plans to build here in Wellington.
This cowboy has every intention of undertaking all his sanitary plumbing by himself and then the balls to ask a plumber to sign it off for him...after promptly telling him to piss off the thought ran through my head that he will most probably get someone to do this for him bastardising our industry.
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is it possible that he could do it legally under the classification of: not licensed under supervision: if so you could have told him that you would have supervise all his work and that would mean hanging around all the time and charging $85.00 per hour, i think that would put him off,cheers   

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Re: Fellow Practitioner Issue 285 Dated 18 December 2015
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2015, 10:11:14 AM »
hi guys another statement from F/P today...(When someone asks for a “cash” job, what they are actually asking for a is a “cheap” job. If you can get this idea embedded in your mind, then the attractive “cash” job becomes a not so attractive “cheap” job – because that is what it is – the customer wants to pay less – that’s why they ask)
... that's right a cheap job is what they want. I recently had a guy call me for a quote on installing a gas hob unit. He couldn't understand why i needed to view the work before quoting and rattled on until i gave him a ball park figure, he said he would call me back which he did about 2 days later and said that he'll give me $200.00 for the work!! i put the phone down, cheers   



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