Agents of the National Police have arrested two men as alleged perpetrators of a crime against the rights of workers and another against the rights of foreign workers, for alleged labor exploitation, in a restaurant, in the El Arenal area of Palm. The agents, through the victims’ statements, found out that they were forced to work 14 hours a day.
The agents, when carrying out a routine control in various establishments in El Arenal, located a restaurant in which the workers were offered abusive working hours and conditions, contravening the collective hospitality agreement of the Balearic Islands, taking advantage of the personal circumstances of the three foreign workers in an irregular situation.
The Ucrif investigators were able to reach the conclusion that the allegedly criminal activity of these people affected the group of foreign workers only, leading to a regime of quasi-slavery.
The workers, who were recruited through an Internet messaging application, lacked the corresponding residence and work permit to be able to work, and were not registered with Social Security, lacking the legal contract, so at the end their work would not receive any type of settlement corresponding to the time worked, nor vacations or overtime.
The victims, driven by their different economic and personal situations (family responsibilities), and having no means of subsistence, were forced to accept the working conditions imposed by the manager and recruiter and the owner of the restaurant. However, many eventually stopped working due to the endless hours.
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