lid posted
On 24/04/2017 22:21, Roger Hayter wrote:
bert wrote:


Are you saying that immigrants can currently be paid less than the
minimum wage? EU immigrants must already be treated the same as locals.
But there is very considerable evidence that they often aren't.


There is evidence that illegal immigrants are unfairly treated but not
much for EU immigrants being so treated.


http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...y-illegal-gang
master-east-anglia-valujevs-mezals

"... A succession of workers from eastern Europe described a precarious
existence in the fens. ... They described a system of erratic employment
in which their hours were never certain and might only be confirmed the
evening before in a text from one of the two men. .... Work was
withheld, the prosecution said, until tenants became indebted to the
pair; that debt was used as a means of controlling them. The victims
suffered threats and intimidation.
Mezals sometimes collected the workers pay himself or had it paid
into his personal bank accounts, or in other cases waited for workers in
his minibus to take rent and purported debts from them as soon as they
were paid. Witnesses said deductions were sometimes made arbitrarily, so
that they often ended up with only £20 for a full weeks work.


--
Jack