old boss was a pig and a bully

[apple]

Hi

I have a number of complaints about my old I wanna report him to the revenue and health & safety & pension board. What is the procedure and who do I go to

Health & safety issues: include working in office with no toilet, canteen. Every morning have to clear desk of rat droppings from the night before.
No Ventilation or heating. If you wanted to go to the toilet you had to walk up to a house that was been built. He did not have employers liability insurance for over 5 mths but had a full work force working.

Revenue issues: Im still owed 1500 in wages, foreign workers made work 55-62 hours aweek but not paid for sick days, bank holidays , holidays etc. The last two weeks wages before xmas they were paid cash so as not to pay paye or prsi. Workers were not giving tax rebates when due instead I was made do a ghost payroll when everyone gone on hols and the boss put the rebates through the system and as a result saved himself 12K in tax. He has been living in a house on site that the compoany own and has not paid any bik on it. He and a friend rent a house up the north that they are saying is a company but they rent out the house to foriegn workers. They are using this house to avoid paying VRT. He claims back the vat on items but sells them for cash so to pay no vat.

Pension issues: he is legally meant to pay all staff the cif pension but he is in business know three years and still hasnt paid it to any one.

Who do I report him to and what normally happens?

 

[dam099]

Revenue issues: Im still owed 1500 in wages, foreign workers made work 55-62 hours aweek but not paid for sick days, bank holidays , holidays etc.

Not strictly Revenue issues more likely a reason for complaint to other bodies.

The last two weeks wages before xmas they were paid cash so as not to pay paye or prsi. Workers were not giving tax rebates when due instead I was made do a ghost payroll when everyone gone on hols and the boss put the rebates through the system and as a result saved himself 12K in tax.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean here as I'm not sure how so many workers would be due rebates and how the ghost payroll you refer to worked but as described it sounds like something dodgy went on for this to have benefited your boss there would likely have had to have been falsification of P30 and P35/P60 returns.

One note of caution here if you knowingly put through a payroll you knew to be false you might end up in trouble too. In fact your boss sounds like the type who might try and offload the blame on you as the person who prepared the payroll (even if he signed the returns he may claim he was relying on the accuracy of your work preparing the payroll). If you are the one reporting to Revenue they might tend to believe you but if you do it anonymously they won't know that. Legal advice might be warranted in this case if your conduct was less than perfect (even if you were presumably under duress).

Note that even if you don't report this matter it may come to light anyway in the course of a Revenue audit or if someone's P60 is obviously wrong then this could come to light should they request a balancing statement etc from the Revenue.

 

[onekeano]

I'd imagine the Dept of Enterprise and Employment might be interested in talking with him for a start and they in turn might engage all the other various agencies that need to be involved?

http://www.entemp.ie/

http://www.entemp.ie/contact/index.htm

Looks like you might be heading for an Employment Appeals Tribunal too? http://www.entemp.ie/employment/appeals/

Roy

 

[apple]

Thanks for those comments.

The reason so many people were due rebates is because they were all polish and if they handed in a p45 or not they were all put on a week one basis. When i joined the company I had to sort out the mess of getting them new tax certs. when the new tax certs arrived (there were about 25 of them. the girl in revenue helped me out but doing all at once)
so the payroll for that week was there normal wage on week one basis boss paid them all cash. I had to reverse the payroll and change their details to normal and they would have all been entitled to rebates but no one received them and the boss p30 for that month was a 12K rebate. as regards p60's the boss got rid of all staff during the xmas break and none of the polish received p60's or p 45 as they went home and did not come back.