Re: The British not up to their old tricks of raping and pillaging?

On Jun 30, 10:18 am, MM <kylix...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here's a story to warm the cockles of one's heart - if one is a
soulless gangmaster, that is!

It seems that Lithuanian guest workers are being ripped off big time
when employed on government PFI projects.

"According to industry guidelines and an agreement between unions and
the building firm Skanska, which is overseeing the project, workers on
the site should have been earning more than £7 an hour. But after
deductions for rent, tool hire and utility bills, some of the
Lithuanian employees were receiving so little observers say it left
them virtually destitute."

One worker took home just £8.80 for a 39-hour week.

"Payslips seen by the Guardian show that one man worked a 39-hour week
and took home just £8.80 after his entire monthly rent was deducted in
one week, in breach of the law."

This, I fear, is all happening because the clever bosses to recruit
these people know their law and the legal loopholes, e.g "The men each
had a further £76.80 deducted weekly as their payment to the
'construction industry scheme', which technically registers them as
self-employed, meaning their employers have no requirement to pay
national insurance."

In other words, what I was saying about the British propensity to rip
people off wherever possible is just as alive and kicking today as
when we made it all sound official by sailing our ships to Africa and
other places to carry out rape and pillage and bring home the
ill-gotten gains with which to build mansions and fund further
exploits, sorry, exploitation.http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jun/30/tradeunions.pay

Skanska is a Swedish company. Oops! Those nice, civilised Europeans
eh? :)


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