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EPISODE · Oct 6, 2025 · 35 MIN

RTE, Arthur Cox and the Workers Getting Shafted

from The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack

Please join us at patreon.com/tortoiseshack In what is being called an "opportunity to regularise employment misclassification" the Revenue Commissioners are to grant a two year amnesty to employers who engaged in bogus self employment. The repercussions this will have for the workers (across many industries) who have been denied benefits, entitlements and pay for the years outside of this 'opportunity' seem not to matter a jot. To add insult to injury it turns out that Arthur Cox, the legal firm representing RTE against bogus self employed workers, is using this “opportunity” as a marketing tool for their business. Arthur Cox Sales Pitch This tangled web involves media, the govt, the legal profession and even current Fine Gale presidential candidate, Hearther Humphreys. We unpick it all here. Eoin Ó Broin on Catherine Connolly, Housing and Left Unity podcast is out now here:https://www.patreon.com/posts/patron-exclusive-140192205 Donate to Dignity for Palestine:https://www.patreon.com/posts/some-good-news-140335712

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