PHOTO: Builder Grant Lemon of Waihi Beach was defrauded by Mitre 10. STUFF
A company running several Mitre 10 stores has been found guilty of criminal charges after it defrauded one of its contract builders. TONY WALL reports.
For 12 years, Grant Lemon worked hard for Mitre 10, making pre-fabricated roof trusses for its Waihi branch.
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It was a job the contract builder got through his brother, David Lemon, who was the firm’s truss detailer.
Grant Lemon was paid on a “piece rate” basis, where he was paid for each unit of production at a fixed hourly rate. The more work he completed in a certain time period, the more he got paid.
But in 2008, around the time of the Global Financial Crisis, he felt like he was working harder than ever but earning less.
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