Stulbam jābūt, lai dabūtu sūda darbu lauksaimniecībā, maksāt par to lv pajoļu firmelēm. Iesitiet google ''Fruit farms uk, , , piezvaniet vai nosūtiet CV pirms sezonas jau ziemā uz kādām 20 fermām un lauku darbi būs jums par brīvu cik uziet:D
Lēnām iztulkojiet un izlasiet - sapratīsiet kas notiks, ja brauksiet caur kantoriem:)
Anguel and Krasimir pointed out a trailer in the corner of the farmyard filled with damaged and green potatoes. This, they said, is what their group, 40 Bulgarians, had been trying to live on while working illegally through subcontractors on a large farming and packhouse complex in Cornwall supplying vegetables to Tesco and Morrisons.
Some of them had been left without pay for 34 days by their Latvian gangmaster and they had been reduced to scavenging. "It's kind of the farmer really. It has made surviving much easier, " Anguel said. "We've also had courgettes that other workers have passed on to us from the other farms. I suppose they are stolen."
Yesterday the Gangmaster Licensing Authority announced that it had ordered the gangmaster employing the group to cease trading immediately.
This month Anguel Kovachev, 31, who used to be a rep for a water company in Bulgaria, and his friends, invited the Guardian to hear their stories.
Mr Kovachev explained that he and his compatriots had signed up with an agent in Sofia and been charged between €700-€900 (£475-£610) for "cheap" bus tickets and the promise of work permits on farms in England. But as soon as they left the bus in Victoria, London, some of them suspected they had been tricked. There were no work permits; instead they were told to buy tickets to Penzance where they were met by an agent from a different company - a Latvian named Andris Tiltnieks, who told them to pay another £100 or go back to Bulgaria.
Most of the group, having paid so much already to come so far, agreed to pay the sum or have it deducted from their wages. They were taken to caravans rented from a farmer to join earlier arrivals.
But a few of the Bulgarians who had arrived in June decided to turn back rather than risk working illegally, and had rung their embassy for advice. The embassy contacted the Gangmaster Licensing Authority and the Home Office, and the investigators soon arrived at Southern England Farms (SEF), one of Tesco's flagship suppliers, to interview the workers.
Mr Tiltnieks and his company, Baltic Work Team, were familiar to the GLA. The authority had revoked his licence in February after an inspection which found he was not complying with regulations in his employment of mainly Latvian and Lithuanian workers. They were picking daffodils and cabbages for companies in Cornwall other than SEF at the time.
It is illegal for farmers and packing companies to use a gangmaster who is not licensed. But Mr Tiltnieks had appealed against the revocation and had been granted extra time to put his house in order. SEF's contract for labour was with a different gangmaster, Elite Labour Services, which in turn subcontracted the work to Baltic Work Team.
Investigators found workers hungry and fearful. Some of them had been forced to work a day without access to food or water. Some had been threatened with eviction from the caravans if they refused to work.
Up to 16 at a time had been sent to pack, plant and pick for SEF. They had also worked on other farms in the area. In Bulgaria they had been promised earnings of up to £100 a day.
Krasimir Rosenov, 26, a former executive with a sweet and cake company, and Mr Kovachev, a graduate who earned only £150 a month at home, were eager.
"I couldn't wait to come, " Mr Kovachev said. But when they finally reached Penzance Mr Tiltnieks' greeting was hardly warm: "He explained to us that if we didn't give him a further £100 deposit and if we didn't speak English or Russian we would have to go back to Bulgaria."
The caravans where they had ended up were clearly veterans of a holiday park, decorated externally with cartoon jungle scenes. Inside some were anything but fun. The best were simply plain and cramped, the worst downright horrible.
When they first moved in Mr Kovachev, Mr Krasimir and four others were living and sleeping in one van. Two were in a double room, two in a tiny second room; the single beds were less than a metre wide and clearly intended for children. The heater was broken, making the cold, wet, summer even less comfortable. There was a microwave but it did not work.
The worst feature was the bathroom. A tatty shower curtain and a dirty, rusty, smelly, bath, with the water from the shower head either cold or boiling hot. The lavatory met the same standard.
The workers had been charged £15 to register as self-employed, although the GLA said they were not registered and were controlled from their arrival by Mr Tiltnieks and so employed illegally. They were also charged £30 to open bank accounts, and a further £50 for provision of work clothes. At first they were charged £50 a week each for their cramped quarters, but that was later reduced when it was pointed out that the maximum a gangmaster was legally allowed to charge those on the minimum wage was £29.50.
Mr Kovachev's "payment advice" between June 28 and July 25 shows he earned £456.09. After deductions for tax and insurance he was left with £356.07. But once money had also been taken for water, electricity, transport and rent, he was left with £102.52 for a month's work.
Others were given so little work but charged so much for deductions they got into debt.
For Mr Kovachev and Mr Krasimir, the insecurity was the worst feature. They were never sure whether they were working legally or not. "We are not criminals. We wanted to work legally and tried to. I would go and ask at various job centres and offices. I kept getting back different answers."
When we put the allegations to him, Mr Tiltnieks said the claims were "an unconscionable lie". He said: "Our company successfully works in UK ... and we [have] always respected UK laws." .
We asked Elite Labour Services, which provided the Baltic Work Team workers for the supermarket supplier SEF and which has worked with Mr Tiltnieks for two years, what checks it had made on its subcontractor. Its director, Paul Elson, said he believed the workers were self-employed and therefore working legally and that his company had made all the right payments. He admitted that his own company's licence had had undisclosed conditions imposed on it following an earlier GLA inspection but said he had done his best to comply with the law. He said: "It's really hard, the margins are very tight. You ring three different government departments and get three different answers."
The company SEF said it was a responsible employer. "We only use GLA-licensed labour providers. SEF have cooperated fully and assisted the GLA in their investigation and we are very disappointed to hear about the allegations made against this subcontracted labour provider, " said its managing director, Richard Greville.
A spokesman for Tesco said: "Tesco was active in securing the Gangmaster Licencing Act and we expect all of our suppliers to meet strict independently audited criteria for labour standards. This includes ensuring they manage their agencies and non-permanent workforce responsibly."
Morrisons commented that it too took the issues seriously and used only reputable suppliers.
Mr Kovachev and Mr Krasimir left Cornwall once the investigation began. They went to London, hoping to buy an old banger, sleep in it, and find new work.
"We have lived like pigs, grateful for scraps. I am sure it will be better in London. It can't be worse, " Mr Kovachev told us.
Vai Japānu sola GPR? Apskatiet NVA mājas lapā.Nav viņiem licences darbiekārtošanai Japānā. Un vispār, ja zina valodu ( angļu , vācu )un vēl noskaidro par darba un sadzīves apstākļiem tajā pašā NVA pie EURES konsultantiem, nebūs jāmaksā nevienam starpniekam ar nezināmu iznākumu. Var meklēt internetā Vācijas, Dānijas, GB utt .darbā iekārtošanās aģentūru vakances un saņemsiet savā e-pastā regulārus darba piedāvājumus (daļa no tiem tiek sūtīti automātiskā režīmā). Drošības spilventiņš naudas izteiksmē gan ir vajadzīgs.
Izskatās drausmīgi, lasot komentārus. Vai tā ir taisnība var spriest ja tik kāds kuru pazīsti ko saka. Gadās kad masveidā nokritizē kaut ko tieši to labo, savtīgu interešu vadīti.
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Kūrš ir braucis caur GPR stradat uz Vaciju ludzu uzrakstiet
Stulbam jābūt, lai dabūtu sūda darbu lauksaimniecībā, maksāt par to lv pajoļu firmelēm. Iesitiet google ''Fruit farms uk, , , piezvaniet vai nosūtiet CV pirms sezonas jau ziemā uz kādām 20 fermām un lauku darbi būs jums par brīvu cik uziet:D
Lēnām iztulkojiet un izlasiet - sapratīsiet kas notiks, ja brauksiet caur kantoriem:)
Anguel and Krasimir pointed out a trailer in the corner of the farmyard filled with damaged and green potatoes. This, they said, is what their group, 40 Bulgarians, had been trying to live on while working illegally through subcontractors on a large farming and packhouse complex in Cornwall supplying vegetables to Tesco and Morrisons.
Some of them had been left without pay for 34 days by their Latvian gangmaster and they had been reduced to scavenging. "It's kind of the farmer really. It has made surviving much easier, " Anguel said. "We've also had courgettes that other workers have passed on to us from the other farms. I suppose they are stolen."
Yesterday the Gangmaster Licensing Authority announced that it had ordered the gangmaster employing the group to cease trading immediately.
This month Anguel Kovachev, 31, who used to be a rep for a water company in Bulgaria, and his friends, invited the Guardian to hear their stories.
Mr Kovachev explained that he and his compatriots had signed up with an agent in Sofia and been charged between €700-€900 (£475-£610) for "cheap" bus tickets and the promise of work permits on farms in England. But as soon as they left the bus in Victoria, London, some of them suspected they had been tricked. There were no work permits; instead they were told to buy tickets to Penzance where they were met by an agent from a different company - a Latvian named Andris Tiltnieks, who told them to pay another £100 or go back to Bulgaria.
Most of the group, having paid so much already to come so far, agreed to pay the sum or have it deducted from their wages. They were taken to caravans rented from a farmer to join earlier arrivals.
But a few of the Bulgarians who had arrived in June decided to turn back rather than risk working illegally, and had rung their embassy for advice. The embassy contacted the Gangmaster Licensing Authority and the Home Office, and the investigators soon arrived at Southern England Farms (SEF), one of Tesco's flagship suppliers, to interview the workers.
Mr Tiltnieks and his company, Baltic Work Team, were familiar to the GLA. The authority had revoked his licence in February after an inspection which found he was not complying with regulations in his employment of mainly Latvian and Lithuanian workers. They were picking daffodils and cabbages for companies in Cornwall other than SEF at the time.
It is illegal for farmers and packing companies to use a gangmaster who is not licensed. But Mr Tiltnieks had appealed against the revocation and had been granted extra time to put his house in order. SEF's contract for labour was with a different gangmaster, Elite Labour Services, which in turn subcontracted the work to Baltic Work Team.
Investigators found workers hungry and fearful. Some of them had been forced to work a day without access to food or water. Some had been threatened with eviction from the caravans if they refused to work.
Up to 16 at a time had been sent to pack, plant and pick for SEF. They had also worked on other farms in the area. In Bulgaria they had been promised earnings of up to £100 a day.
Krasimir Rosenov, 26, a former executive with a sweet and cake company, and Mr Kovachev, a graduate who earned only £150 a month at home, were eager.
"I couldn't wait to come, " Mr Kovachev said. But when they finally reached Penzance Mr Tiltnieks' greeting was hardly warm: "He explained to us that if we didn't give him a further £100 deposit and if we didn't speak English or Russian we would have to go back to Bulgaria."
The caravans where they had ended up were clearly veterans of a holiday park, decorated externally with cartoon jungle scenes. Inside some were anything but fun. The best were simply plain and cramped, the worst downright horrible.
When they first moved in Mr Kovachev, Mr Krasimir and four others were living and sleeping in one van. Two were in a double room, two in a tiny second room; the single beds were less than a metre wide and clearly intended for children. The heater was broken, making the cold, wet, summer even less comfortable. There was a microwave but it did not work.
The worst feature was the bathroom. A tatty shower curtain and a dirty, rusty, smelly, bath, with the water from the shower head either cold or boiling hot. The lavatory met the same standard.
The workers had been charged £15 to register as self-employed, although the GLA said they were not registered and were controlled from their arrival by Mr Tiltnieks and so employed illegally. They were also charged £30 to open bank accounts, and a further £50 for provision of work clothes. At first they were charged £50 a week each for their cramped quarters, but that was later reduced when it was pointed out that the maximum a gangmaster was legally allowed to charge those on the minimum wage was £29.50.
Mr Kovachev's "payment advice" between June 28 and July 25 shows he earned £456.09. After deductions for tax and insurance he was left with £356.07. But once money had also been taken for water, electricity, transport and rent, he was left with £102.52 for a month's work.
Others were given so little work but charged so much for deductions they got into debt.
For Mr Kovachev and Mr Krasimir, the insecurity was the worst feature. They were never sure whether they were working legally or not. "We are not criminals. We wanted to work legally and tried to. I would go and ask at various job centres and offices. I kept getting back different answers."
When we put the allegations to him, Mr Tiltnieks said the claims were "an unconscionable lie". He said: "Our company successfully works in UK ... and we [have] always respected UK laws." .
We asked Elite Labour Services, which provided the Baltic Work Team workers for the supermarket supplier SEF and which has worked with Mr Tiltnieks for two years, what checks it had made on its subcontractor. Its director, Paul Elson, said he believed the workers were self-employed and therefore working legally and that his company had made all the right payments. He admitted that his own company's licence had had undisclosed conditions imposed on it following an earlier GLA inspection but said he had done his best to comply with the law. He said: "It's really hard, the margins are very tight. You ring three different government departments and get three different answers."
The company SEF said it was a responsible employer. "We only use GLA-licensed labour providers. SEF have cooperated fully and assisted the GLA in their investigation and we are very disappointed to hear about the allegations made against this subcontracted labour provider, " said its managing director, Richard Greville.
A spokesman for Tesco said: "Tesco was active in securing the Gangmaster Licencing Act and we expect all of our suppliers to meet strict independently audited criteria for labour standards. This includes ensuring they manage their agencies and non-permanent workforce responsibly."
Morrisons commented that it too took the issues seriously and used only reputable suppliers.
Mr Kovachev and Mr Krasimir left Cornwall once the investigation began. They went to London, hoping to buy an old banger, sleep in it, and find new work.
"We have lived like pigs, grateful for scraps. I am sure it will be better in London. It can't be worse, " Mr Kovachev told us.
Tagad sola darbu Japānā, uz kuģiem! Varbūt kāds zin ko vairāk, un var ko ieteikt? Paldies!
Vai Japānu sola GPR? Apskatiet NVA mājas lapā.Nav viņiem licences darbiekārtošanai Japānā. Un vispār, ja zina valodu ( angļu , vācu )un vēl noskaidro par darba un sadzīves apstākļiem tajā pašā NVA pie EURES konsultantiem, nebūs jāmaksā nevienam starpniekam ar nezināmu iznākumu. Var meklēt internetā Vācijas, Dānijas, GB utt .darbā iekārtošanās aģentūru vakances un saņemsiet savā e-pastā regulārus darba piedāvājumus (daļa no tiem tiek sūtīti automātiskā režīmā). Drošības spilventiņš naudas izteiksmē gan ir vajadzīgs.
Izskatās drausmīgi, lasot komentārus. Vai tā ir taisnība var spriest ja tik kāds kuru pazīsti ko saka. Gadās kad masveidā nokritizē kaut ko tieši to labo, savtīgu interešu vadīti.