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money and fewer rights and not just in the meat industry. german labor minister who because higher now wants to change things or do chemical ban contract work and temporary work in the core activities of the meat industry group the pandemic called attention to contract worker exploitation in germany. the town of failed near fate of eating pork or the end of june thousands of people from eastern europe are essentially under house arrest guarded by police their work at the turn a slaughterhouse has been suspended. around 7000 employees are in quarantine. a few kilometers away a relief operation is underway fate of even book residents have made donations for the workers one of the organizers is an approach needed for over 70 years she's been fighting for the rights of chinese workers. believe this much more than we ever expected it happened at very short notice. yes all right dearest give kat

packages in solidarity said the web to see that this anger isn't directed at them but it another visitor to there's something going on. over 1000 packages have been collected containing food toiletries and even toys. maina georgieva and stand a mammy hand off distribute donations and fare for many chinese workers live in shared apartments. male often georgieva give support to migrant workers from eastern europe. they translate for us here. one bulgarian says he's been a meat cutter for attorney as for 18 months. we're going to offer you in for example if a veterinarian marks any spots on the pigs that are not suitable for consumption but one of his jobs is to cut them off as an adult. the man is employed by a subcontractor he gets the minimum wage 9 year olds $35.00 an hour he hasn't received a paycheck for months he lives here in an 80 square metre apartments with 8 others

next door we meet some men and women from polish than them the men are contract workers for 10 years and also live here and collective accommodations how many people live here we ask 8 o 9 s 3 room apartment we want to know more about the tourney's workers living conditions we say will give them a camera for 20 minutes so they can take some pictures of their place where you all see one of the men refuses. you it must feel the other one takes our camera and goes off to take some pictures. look like they're all of europe but after a few moments he comes back another man appears behind him and he doesn't seem to like the contract worker talking to us. the worker is told to give the camera back . we receive we ask who the man asked. is it that the boss.

yes it sure yeah yes and. he sends the workers back into the house would he ordered them to leave. the 5th of ah it's a shame that happened. i need to avoid because some of them wanted to talk to us and to tell us what was happening to them. i hope there are no bad consequences for them now and for the. workers behind bence's guarded by police. how did it come to this. in june 2020 there was a corona virus outbreak attorney and innovative beaten book germany's largest slaughterhouse these pictures are from before the pandemic. in the ventilation system is said to be to blame the mass infection as well as insufficient physical distancing between employees. one of the workers talked about his experiences in

a cell phone. as long as you felt healthy no one worries that you kept working. they only cared about the money. they didn't care if we died or not. it's likely the employees spread the virus from the workplace into their homes many live with 3 to 4 people in a single room so the outbreak grew. more than 6000 chinese workers were tested more than 1500 were positive. locals were also being tested. in june the district went into lockdown again then turned as working conditions became a focus of global attention through. a small village in the south of romania.

alberto gogu lives in this house with his family he literally pled from afraid of being a bloke in mid june. as a contract worker attorney has the experience of the corona virus outbreak he says as a goal distancing at work was impossible. even and i can't teen it was too crowded dockery if it was he beats the same way and we were told to distance ourselves but that was impossible otherwise we'd have to be standing up and. alberto says that when the 1st workers got sick he and his colleagues had to work much more. he was doing up to 12 hours a day on the production line even when he felt sick himself. because i told the boss i'm not feeling well i have to see a doctor she said you're not going anywhere. alberto was afraid of catching coronavirus so he went back to romania and mid june. he spent the last

12 years doing contract work in germany but after his experiences in the last few months he says he's had enough. of the. thousands of people like alberto gogu work in turn yes even though the company doesn't actually employ them. here's how the system of contract work and temporary work functions usually companies have a core workforce if there's more to do it's short notice temporary workers can be hired. they become part of the company for a limited time temporary work is rare in the meat industry what's common is contract work. this is when a company hires sub contractors to carry out a specific job like cutting up animal carcasses. the subcontractor sends its workers to do the job the original company pays for the work to be done but doesn't take responsibility for the personnel who do it they don't belong to the company.

to turn a site of a to vidhan book works with around 25 subcontractors who mostly source their workers from eastern europe. of a total of $16500.00 employees only half are employed by turn yes the other half are contract workers. and. that's the system being a bunch need it is fighting against when she heard about the poor working and living conditions that turn yes she decided to act. in 2013 she and others found. in a group to help those affected by exploitation of employment. she shows us articles about her work. as early as 2014 the group was pointing out contract workers often alarming living conditions. of doubt the plan of the building with the top and use labels to show what we'd see they'd be a bag and even that might be a bunk bed so many people live in such

a small space there might be one toilet for 10 people in order to. shows us a cell phone video she made in a flash shared by turn u.s. workers. the living rooms are filled with beds $3.00 to $4.00 people sleep in one room. the bathroom is completely rundown. today many say they knew nothing about the situation. but the and her fellow activists have been criticizing these conditions for 7 years in 2015 and they took their concerns to the highest level. zeugma then economy minister and vice chancellor visited that night that he took notes as he heard about the situation. into the sea if he was so interested we found that now something would change when he left oh how sweet she said now something will happen. she could hardly

believe what happened next. clements turn yes on a guided tour of his meat processing plant in front of the cameras it was a p.r. coup for the businessman the vice chancellor was full of praise despite knowing about the problems a tenuous later he wrote on facebook it's good that sets positive standards and an industry that also has its share of bad apples. 5 years on. briefly worked for clemens as a consultant for 10000 euros a month and turn us with all his contacts in the political world as one of germany's richest people with an estimated private fortune of up to 2000000000 euros enough to employ a host of contract workers whose poor living and working conditions have been known

for years and even a former german vice chancellor. not every part of the meat industry relies on contract workers there are still around 13000 so-called craft butchers in germany. runs 5 of them in bremen. his family business employs around 70 people. how many of your personnel are contract workers. none of them. so they wouldn't be here if i put them on a work contract and temporary workers. are temporary workers. either a lot of them have been with me for over 10 or 15 years the. jobs from a cheap supermarket might cost 6 year as a kilo dome on charges double that it's not only because of higher wages large slaughterhouses have lower costs and factory farmed fakes are cheaper we going to

use advertised as regional pork that's all very well but look the certification of all is one that's industrial pig farming where only the lowest requirements of animal welfare are filled. as president of the german torturers association dome and says small but yours are at a disadvantage for example a government certified veterinary examination of a pig costs a small business up to $24.00 euros businesses that slaughter several 1000 animals a day pay less according to regional peace scales and they don't and you often have leave it at the big industrial places the prices at most 150 to 2 year or so in addition small butchers pay higher fees for disposing slaughterhouse waste and spend more on electricity because of renewable energy levies dorman isn't trying to match the industrial slaughterhouses prices but he does want more support from politicians $1.00 and we don't want special treatment just equal treatment.

giant slaughterhouses aren't just a threat to smaller competitors but often to their own workers too. is the chairman of the charity coffee toss in the district of kuta slow he's witnessed how the turn his company went from being a simple butcher store to germany's largest slaughterhouse and meat processor he says clemens turning us made his fortune at the expense of workers. turned this is not true to hope or to news makes most of the profit of course there's no question that they've exploited the poverty gap professional gain. to news is they also profit because if they are a blatant violation. it's always the subcontractors fault as always keeps its hands clean. and has been advising tanya's contract workers and their families since 2016. he and his colleagues have held more than 10000 consultations he knows the methods used to keep monthly wages low. technically the minimum wage is what's

on the pay slip but then there might be $150.00 or $300.00 euros deducted for accommodation or for cleaning materials or shoes whatever they can deduct or they increase the rent when people are sick that type of thing there isn't much left over from the minimum wage. most of the several 1000 contract workers a turn yes far from for parts of eastern europe they speak hardly any german. they are brought to the country and put into cramped shared accommodations this also has wider effects on the region. this business model means that more and more poor people with little education come to the region and it's some point society is no longer able to cope with it definitely threaten social cohesion. we asked chinese holding a comment on the living and working conditions of contract workers in

a written response the company didn't go into any detail but it did say it aims to gradually change working conditions plans to directly employ workers in the areas of slaughtering cutting and packaging by the beginning of 2021. factor that led to the current situation was a concerted political push labor market flexibility. that was a key part of social democrat chancellor gerhard schroeder's so-called agenda 2010 . ladies and gentlemen we're going to have to cut. back on state benefits demand personal responsibility and ask more from each individual. agenda 2010 ushered in contract work temporary work and so-called many jobs at the university of applied sciences and copeland's professor stefan examines the causes

of precarious employment he says his labor reforms also known as the hearts reforms weekend workers' rights that's yeah that's because it's a. good deal what the hearts laws brought with them was enormous deregulation of protector labor market provision. they enable temporary work and in my view they made it easier to abuse something like contract work. order. since the hearts reforms employers in many industries have used all legal means to keep wages low and profits high even though contract work was really designed to address seasonal demands for extra labor. the problem in many industries is that the core business activity is now permanently carried out by contractors. we've seen it in the meat industry and. we also see it in logistics but above all in the construction sector. there the

general work has been done by contract workers for years and it has nothing to do with periods of peak demand. contract work has many advantages for employers if workers stay home because of illness vacation or pregnancy it doesn't cost the employer a cent contract workers also have no voice within the company. and how would even if we do these enormous giggling about young bush contract work releases the employer from all the obligations they normally have to their employees mention. maybe by workers through a subcontractor the way they'd buy screws or other goods when this is big and close all the costs are personnel costs their material costs on time that's the cost. of attorney a scandal brought yet another shock to the political establishment pushing lawmakers to ensure that workers from abroad who were paid fairly. germany's upper house of

the bonus pot voted on a bill to guarantee that workers from other e.u. countries would get the same pay as german colleagues an effort to prevent so-called social dumping. of. buddhist talk lawmaker beatin minigame has been fighting against precarious employment in the meat and agricultural industries for years if all that interests you that's that's demanding that contract work and temporary work be prohibitive when it comes to a business is cooler activity in this example companies have to take responsibility themselves and in italy are people we think it's very important that safeguards a strengthened and that this one single safeguard mechanism for wages working hours to patients to house and safety house protections and accommodation. again and again there have been legislative attempts to protect workers from social dumping and abuses of the contract work system. we asked germany's labor ministry for an

interview about the issue several times without success so instead we approached labor minister who bet his heil after the just hot session. we prado a list of almost 20 legislative initiatives intended to stop precarious employment relationships in recent years almost all were either rejected or languished in a desk drawer. almost this is why can't the government do anything about precarious employment in germany for. is this because it's the state's job to do something but in our system it's above all the job of stakeholders like unions and employers and there's the problem our system of social partnership is a road in recent years with your fewer and fewer employers are employees associations and in many sectors far too few employees are in union. to put the blame at the door of unions and employers doesn't quite wash yet we push the minister on why there's been little action from politicians it was no effect on

dozens looking for funding by lobbyists you only have to see that in these cases either the lobbyists have watered down laws or if there were strong regulations circumvented done with trickily written contracts involving sub sub contractors that's a good yes i'm determined to clean up the industry through digital recording of working hours by emphasizing the responsibility of states to adhere to binding inspection quotas with work safety authorities and not just in the meat industry and by having clear and enforced rules regarding employee accommodation. because the strictest rules are of no use if they're not enforced and we're going to ban contract work and temporary work are in the core activities of the meat industry but for beacon with that who battles hile would be taking on some of the biggest companies in europe big in part because they keep wages low through contract work. we asked the employers association for food and consumption for comment they declined an interview directing our questions to

a meat industry employers group the s.p. a they gave us this written response regarding the planned abolition of contract work and temporary work in the meat industry. contract work is an important instrument of flexibility without flexibility the meat industry would go abroad and more than 50 percent of jobs will be threatened. the s.p.s. argument is one that employers often make. but others. strongly disagree. professor myself works for the german institute for economic research. of attraction of the ocean and it's nice to get rid of germany's not in danger of losing this industry if there are fewer atypical employment arrangements. that's a myth with no basis in fact not so not but the fact is that german companies are very competitive internationally not because of atypical employment but because of

their highly productive employees. this is a typical employment includes temporary work and contract work but also so-called many jobs fixed term contracts and part time work almost a 3rd of german workers have this kind of employment that figure has risen sharply since the 1990 s. . and it's not just the meat industry it happens in many other sectors including logistics. the dortmund logistics company or deals g.e. is a subsidiary of discount retail giant teddy it supplies teddy stores throughout europe. in october 29000 we reported on how workers here were striking for better wages. says the head of the employee organization at the time philip keynes fought for years for a collective agreement. that's the kind of or no negotiations i mean that lawyer is

refusing to talk to the union according to the employee organization of the company had about 640 employees and 2019 of these about 350 were said to be contract workers. only 290 women and men were on permanent staff. a year on we meet phillip keynes again he's now union secretary at the trade union verity we ask what's changed at the. as was hard it's worse today than it was before we now have twice as many contract workers of permanent staff as. dishonest do you mean a good deal and teddy are really pushing to use contract work to oust their own employee i submit a budget for doing. the reduction of permanent staff is in full swing in the. any industries. what employers call flexible ization means insecurity and lower pay for employees. it's not just about the meat industry that contracts are

a problem. used to be entrepreneurial risk the entrepreneur had the money but they also had the risk if there was no work to do that's fallen completely by the wayside today they say they need people to be on call when there is work but they should just disappear when it's done just so long as they don't have to pay anyone to stand around. the german institute for economic research is. also critical of the fact that companies often exploit contract work and other such employment arrangements. see that option but just. can't be the goal of german economic policy to participate in undercutting competition in europe to push wages even lower and promote ever more atypical employment. after all we know that the goal of companies has to be to be productive and to offer better products. and we can see that a typical employment tends to damage that kind of competitiveness but. since the

1990 s. germany's low wage sector has grown by 60 percent mainly thanks to chancellor schroeder as agenda 2010. in a recent study for the bettas month foundation the german institute for economic research found that around $7700000.00 germans had low wage jobs. more than a 5th of employees work for less than 60 percent of the median incomes and less than 11 year olds 40 an hour. that's a lot of people by international standards 16 feet. in almost all neighboring countries and there are fewer workers in the low wage sector than in germany. and denmark for example workers in the meat industry are much better paid. at the danish food trade union and we meet jim. he used to work as a meat cutter himself. we asked him how many contract workers there are in the

danish meat industry. why not. because they have to be employed according to collective agreement they have to be hired by the employer and they have to work for the agreed wage. that's the big danish. almost all employees are directly employed by the company. wages are also much higher. german meat cutters generally only get the statutory minimum wage $35.00 an hour. receive a standard wage of $27.00 euro on average almost 3 times as much. for danish meat at those rates then maybe 2 or 3 percent of the cost of a cutlet will be labor costs it might be 2 percent in germany and 3 percent in denmark no more so the wage competition is only to make profit you can make more profit in germany think you can a denmark. says danish meat companies also try to push down wages but here

almost all employees are in the union that unity makes the workforce strong when companies don't want to strike collective agreements. we can ask for help and support from the other unions. no electrician will come to that company no truck driver will drive in or out and so. sooner or later we can persuade them to enter into a collective agreement or. even turn us itself faces those conditions and denmark. we also have to news here in denmark as to slaughter houses one in blue and one in tested are their workers contract workers. not at all their employees employed by. they get the same as everyone else in the industry. the denmark shows that it's possible to run

a business successfully. profit making through precarious employment is something germ. he has perfected above all other european countries the practice should end in 2021 at least in the meat industry as for other industries this legal exploitation is likely to continue.

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