Again customs raids because of illegal workers at slaughterhouses

Möllenberg demands: "End work contracts for slaughterhouses"

"The nationwide raid by customs on Hungarian front companies and German agency offices, on slaughterhouses and construction sites has shown that there is an urgent need for action to prevent illegal employment of foreigners," said Franz-Josef Möllenberg, chairman of the Food and Beverage Restaurants Union (NGG). declared in Hamburg.

The suspicion - smuggling, illegal hiring out of employees, social security fraud amounting to several million euros and wage dumping - is congruent with allegations by the public prosecutor's office in connection with the employment of Romanian contractors in German slaughterhouses. For several years, the NGG union has been pointing out the loopholes in the work contracts and calling for more effective action against illegal employment and wage slavery. Möllenberg has called on Federal Economics Minister Wolfgang Clement to remove slaughterhouses from the scope of work contracts and to end work contracts. The very time-consuming and difficult control actions showed that the registration practice of the employment offices did not work. According to the NGG chairman, the employment offices are obviously not in a position to check whether the provisions of the work contract agreement are being observed.

Source: Hamburg [ngg]