Paid cash in hand?

Try not to take it personally. It's a thing https://www.thejournal.ie/booming-black-economy-killing-small-business-533041-Jul2012/ . Also, people on this thread have said they work for people in THIS industry and get paid cash - Cash labourer they called it.

As I said above there are signs that this may be the case. You don't need to have spent time in audit, but it probably helps.

BTW, do you think all tax evaders are scumbags - what about someone struggling to feed their family, pay the rent and does the odd nixer? Do you think they are scumbags? I wouldn't call them scumbags.

As for me, you can speculate all you like - you, no more than myself, are posting anonymously. I came on this thread to offer the OP advice (I think she's being badly treated as are others who seem to think they are not entitled to normal holiday pay - where's your uproar about that?) I corrected numerous factual mistakes by others. And yet, some on here took umbrage against an unnamed person that works in an industry where it's stated under the counter payments are made.

I'll ask you the same as others - what have you contributed to the OP?

So you don't understand what the thread has discussed. That's okay, you're not an accountant, so maybe it's unfair to expect you to. And I've covered the other areas. There is a probability being applied here.

But, let me add my own tuppence worth to your contribution, you've pointlessly helped set the thread off on a tangent, so you've done worse than not help the OP, you've hindered her, just so you could attempt a 'GOTCHA!'. 😏