The Plumbers Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board seems to be going from one wreck to another so why isn't something done about it?

Its a lucky dip when it comes to qualifications.

A readers view of the Boards Evolution

The Federations first thoughts on the Fees and Levies review.

Linkback: https://www.plumbers.nz/fellow-practitioners-update/41/fellow-practitioner-issue-244-dated-6-march-2014/1843/

hi guys, (The “Ask for the Card” campaign was started in 2010 and still hasn't got momentum. If this was an advertising campaign for a corporate it would have been dumped in the first 12 months! It didn't have industry support from the start, then when the Board continued to take over $200,000 in fees every year for the campaign, it lost its credibility and when those fees got absorbed into a new fees structure and disappeared, it become money that was being wasted by the Board. It simply lost its impact. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) didn't have industry support in its current form. Only Master Plumbers supported it in the hope of making money from it and I think even they would agree that it has been a failed venture. CPD has now become a “points gathering” exercise and has lost its credibility. It is a complete joke. Industry opinion on this is gathering momentum and the Board need to sit up and take notice. The Fees have been an issue for nearly a decade and the costs have continued to increase. It is at the stage where fixed costs outweigh the performance of set functions! For example discipline - where direct expenditure is $345,063 and the fixed costs are $644,909.Offences is another where direct expenditure is $162,101 and fixed costs are $442,701. The Board have unlawfully taken money from the industry and the Government has retrospectively changed the law to cover for them. Will they do the same with the latest issue where the Board have taken two levies from the industry where the Act states one? The fees and levies system had also lost credibility) when will they wake up and take a hike before it is too late?