FNV: Construction company is guilty of underpaid foreign workers – Focus on News

Saturday, 1 August 2015 – 14:51

Charles John Kivits, Compliance FNV: “According to the collective agreement of Stokkom must reimburse the accommodation costs themselves. The applied construction leads to unfair competition and displacement. “

Stokkom has dozens of Polish workers employed. The agency is among others engaged in construction sites in Valkenburg, Maastricht and Leidsche Rijn via main contractor Hurks, and in Veghel via main contractor Van Wijnen. The FNV says he is in possession of payslips showing that Van Stokkom structurally abused the ET scheme and wrongfully money means the wages of foreign workers, for housing, travel expenses to and from the homeland and livelihood.

Repairing underpayment

Kivits: “We have Van Stokkom by letter called upon to recognize that they make mistakes, and asked them to restore the lower payments and to exclude for the future. They do not respond to this letter. We have also activated the SNCU, the watchdog in the staffing industry. Which is now investigating the apparent structures used. The investigation is ongoing, we await the outcome. “

Housing

The Polish workers pay the housing costs for a small room where they stay four of us. Even people who work long in the Netherlands should not subscribe Van Stokkom in the municipal register. Therefore they are not eligible for replacement housing

Kivits:. “It is clear that Van Stokkom housing and related ET scheme as a business model.”

Abuses

FNV found more collective violation by Van Stokkom. Thus, the basic hourly wage is lower than the hourly wage of the collective agreement. Furthermore, the specialists procedure is not used, that is, skilled workers are paid and inexperienced staff. The ATV is not settled, travel hours are not paid and the pensions of employees running regardless of years of service through the cheap STIPP rather, after a year, through the far better construction fund bpfBOUW.

The ET regulation is also applied to costs of travel and living expenses. Above do employees get the net fee back, but travel expenses are never actually made, so here also the ET scheme must not be applied. By wrongly applying the ET control all of the gross income derived supplements too low.