Fraudulent backdating Employee Contract/ Wage Subsidy I was engaged in end of year payroll and lodging the EMDUPE file. ______’s failure to manage the production and variations to do with the Offshore NZ Data Buoy had created chaos in the bookkeeping and to cash flow. Earlier in the year Brian had demanded that ______ ______ be paid as a contractor in addition to his employee wage subsidy agreement with Sureway. At the time payroll had not been setup nor did we have workers compensation insurance. _______ had agreed to be paid after we had supplied the Darwin Beach Barrier job. That job was eight months late, due in part to ______ leaving inexperienced production assistants to carry out the work unsupervised. One time ______ and I were away a week on an installation job and against company policy had the two employees working without us being there. That resulted in machinery breakdown which ______ let the employees deal with. Probable loss of $10,000. From: "Maggie Marriott" <maggie@buoys.com.au> To: "Brian Merritt" <Brian.Merritt@buoys.com.au> Sent: 28/06/2019 10:39:21 AM Subject: Help with Moving Brian Four weeks ago I tried in vain to get you to help with the looming financial crisis. A crisis caused by your failure to give me the information I required to manage the NZ Data Platform job. The lack of planning and the delays in actually starting on the job placed our customer in a very difficult position with his oil and gas customer. I also told you that my having to move house after the threatened violence from our employee (from Leon Logan, our employee and landlord) would mean my productivity in the company would be severely depleted. ( As you laid your hand on my arm you reassured me and said) “Don’t worry I will do the move” “I will find you somewhere and do the move”. You were sitting on the kitchen sofa whilst I cooked lunch for you.) From: "Maggie Marriott" <maggie@buoys.com.au> To: Sent: 15/07/2019 5:51:18 PM Subject: Fraudulent back dating Employee Contract/ Wage Subsidy Brian, Referencing our phone 'discussion' regarding my concerns around your and Leon's 'workaround' on the subsidy rules. I am not prepared to cheat the system and that you would author a document and backdate it, is disappointing. There is absolutely no need to operate the business fraudulently. Once Again you have wasted my time with advice that you are not qualified to make. I am not a qualified lawyer but I know that
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