The Confederation of Dutch trade unions (FNV) pointed out, on November 21st, the abusive practices of two temporary work agencies, Work Today and Tempo Team, subsidiaries of the international group Randstad. Both agencies are accused of hiring workers in Portugal, and promising them jobs and a pay check advance in the Netherlands. (Ref 061179)
The recruits have to pay their transport expenses, by bus, to the Netherlands, where there is not a job for everybody upon arrival. The confederation of trade unions states the case of 80 Portuguese workers who were promised a job at Philips and DHL. They arrived at the end of October, some of them finished in bungalows that they rented 52 euros a week, in Stamproy, a locality of Brabant. There, intermediaries working for Tempo Team paid the food of these workers from their pocket, because nobo
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