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Staffing agencies are ripping off their foreign workers over health insurance’ Staffing agencies are making thousands of euros each month by pocketing reductions on the health insurance policies of foreign workers, the Volkskrant reports on Thursday. Health insurers offer group reductions on policies of between €10 and €15 per person per month. This reduction is then usually passed on by the employer to the employee. Read more at DutchNews.nl: ‘Staffing agencies are ripping off their foreign workers over health insurance’ http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2014/12/staffing-agencies-are-ripping-off-their-foreign-workers.php/ Polish nationals account for most of foreign staffing agency workers  Staffing agencies are using more low-skilled Polish workers and are giving them longer contracts than they used to, temporary employment agency association ABU said on Wednesday. In the 12 months to July 2014, almost 90,000 so-called flexi-migrants worked in the Netherlands, of wh...

SEP 27 Europe's Migrant Workers And Their Robin Hood: Donald Tusk Migrant workers  play a central role  in Donald Tusk's election campaign: "Minister Donald Tusk’s sudden visit to Lithuania on 4 September in order to express his support for the Polish national minority which had staged a protest rally on 2 September to protest against implementation of the new Law on Education. The visit is a rather rude gesture and it is mostly to do with forthcoming parliamentary elections in Poland, commentators think." Free movement and migrant worker rights are at the heart of the European project,  but still  they don't seem to get any respect  . Who hasn't read the stories of  abused and underpaid migrants .  Supposed lack of integration gave room for populist politicians like Maxime Verhagen to claim  "fear of foreigners is understandable" . But this narrative might be on the verge of collapse. Oh yes, there never was a shortage of ini...

Poland has approved an amnesty law to legalise the status of some of the estimated 50-70,000 illegal migrants living in the country, of which Ukrainians make up the majority. "We want Poland to be an open, hospitable and friendly country," Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said after signing the amnesty Friday. Bron:  http://euobserver.com/1016/113437 Law blog Klik op +1 als u dit een interessant artikel vindt en Google zal het dan beter zichtbaar maken in de zoekresultaten.