Cheap Chinese Labour in Poland

Akai47, Czw, 2008-08-14 22:28 English

Journalists from the daily newspaper "Dziennik" investigated the working conditions of Chinese labourers in Poland. P&L Company from Poznan sent out ads to other firms in Poland offering Chinese workers for hire. According to the ads "they are not subject to Polish Labour Law, they do not get holidays, they can work 10 hours a day, six days per week and they don't drink." The journalists asked the director of the Chamber of the Construction Industry to pose as a potential employer.

During the enquiry, the faux employer was told that the Chinese workers could even work 14 hours per day, could live in barracks and only needed one meal a day. J&L also claimed that they did not need insurance in Poland since they were insured in China.

Firms who would like such a worker should pay J&L 3150 zloties (more than 1000 euros) a month. It is likely that the worker would be paid a third of that salary or less if food and "accomodations" or other items were deducted.

Even better is Promoman firm

Akai47, Czw, 2008-08-14 22:52

Even better is Promoman firm in Warsaw which has signed an exclusive agreement with the government of Bangladesh. Promoman has been boasting in the media about how their workers are much cheaper than Chinese. They claim that workers make only from 20-50 dollars a month in Bangladesh so here in Poland they should cost only about 1200-1300 zloties (around 600 -650 USD). This needs to be investigated. In the Gdansk shipyards, North Korean workers on government contracts were working for only a few dollars a month - literally. Their pay checks went to the government who acted as the labour contractor and paid them a very tiny sum. The shipyard claimed they were paying at least the minimum wage but if the workers didn't get this, it wasn't their fault. The same is likely to be here: the minimum wage is just below 1200 zloties a month, so maybe the companies will claim that they paid the minimum and they know nothing about any abuse.

The government is likely to turn a blind eye on this whole thing as they want to build football stadiums for Euro2012 as cheaply as possible. They even want to use prison labour for this purpose.

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