Romanians get only 1 euro per hour and displace Dutch – Yahoo! News

Romanian workers get in shipyards net less than half of what getting their Dutch colleagues. Gross earning them even one euro per hour. Employers take over as eg in Romania Romanians prefer to employ than Dutch.

So says the FNV. In the Netherlands, according to the union on dozens of shipyards hundreds of Romanians. They get gross EUR 1 per hour.

That they get paid so little comes under the FNV by an outdated European legislation. Thanks to the A1 scheme need for those workers to be paid hardly any taxes and social contributions. Once, in the early years of the European Union, the scheme was set up with the best of intentions but has now become a revenue model.

Pay is almost solely reimbursement
Romanians Romanian concepts get a relatively high salary, but that is almost exclusively a net cost. ” This is a construction that is not true, ” Masha Black FNV tells RTL Z.

” In part it is legal, But some Romanians never work in Romania, only to Dutch shipyards and that in some cases long ” for ten years.

That penalizes treasury and cost Dutch workers their jobs because they are three times as expensive, explains Black out.

large companies
It is mainly the larger companies that use the old European system. It goes like this: a Dutch temporary employment agency pays a job in a foreign sister company so that no social security contributions need to be paid in the Netherlands

The companies say that there is a temporary job in the Netherlands and questions via their. foreign branch a so-called A1 certificate for the ‘posted workers’. Social security contributions are paid on the much lower minimum wage for example in Romania or Poland.

This happens not only in shipbuilding, but also in agriculture and construction.

also SMEs ousted
This is a revenue model for malicious employers, they are also all Dutch SMEs to displace said Black. According to her, not only employees, but also suppliers poorly paid.

With so little pay they also put enormous price pressure in the market for other companies, said Black.

FNV wants to tackle case
This is not just a purely Dutch problem, says Black. It is a European issue. Employees in countries including Germany, Belgium and the UK suffer from it. ” The difference between what should be paid and what is actually paid is increasing. The question is: when it stops and what are the consequences in the long term for our welfare, ” says Black. ” We face the most rotten apple in the box ”.

The union demanded modernization of the scheme, supplementary payment and want the Romanians now simply be paid through the collective agreement. Employees are using all kinds of tricks played off against each other, says the FNV. A special team of the league is investigating for a long time or shipyards adhere to the agreement.