Redrow Homes (Yorkshire) is a big name in housebuilding; it employs a lot of bricklayers. That's part of the reason why it took a couple of them all the way to the giddy heights of the Court of Appeal. Redrow didn't do that just to get out of stumping up ￡658 did it? Dear me, no. My guess is that the firm did it because it was worried there might be a queue of brickies and chippies and plasterers from Falmouth to Flint about to knock on its door. First in that queue was Bob Wright, a self-employed labour-only subcontractor. He mumbled something about holiday pay under something called the Working Time Regulations. Redraw mumbled something in reply: "Go away".
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