Probe into construction rip-off urged by workers

BUILDERS' labourers, angry at a multi-million euro construction industry fraud, yesterday demanded that the Government investigate and jail those responsible.

By law all construction workers must be registered by their employers in the Construction Federation Operatives Pension Scheme (CFOPS). However non-compliance is rampant.

Picketing outside the Department of Justice, up to 100 workers called on Justice Minister Michael McDowell to address a fraud which has seen thousands of construction firms withhold pension contributions from their workers for decades.