DEOK calls on the Police and different competent companies to reply as a result of in the course of the checks they perform for unlawful work, solely the employees who’re discovered to be working illegally are investigated and never the employers who make use of them.
Because it states in its announcement, on the event of one more operation by the Police in collaboration with the Aliens and Immigration Service, within the Limassol district, throughout which foreigners who have been discovered to be illegally within the territory of the Republic of Cyprus have been recognized and arrested, the DEEK states that “apparently each on this case and in others, individuals, who’ve been arrested, work illegally in varied locations”.
“It’s, subsequently, worthy of query, how the Police and different competent Providers know that they’re illegally in Cyprus, they know their place of residence and different data, however they have no idea their locations of labor and employment!”, he notes.
As well as, he states that, whereas the Unified Inspection Service of the Ministry of Labor, with its inspections, finds 13% undeclared and unlawful work and in some sectors resembling building 25%, however the Police and different competent Providers “imagine that solely unlawful aliens exist, however no unlawful employers!”.
The guild wonders why these operations normally happen within the night or early morning within the lodging areas and never throughout working hours within the areas the place they work and states that the related providers should present convincing solutions.
For its half, DEOK states that it’ll proceed to combat for the suppression of illegality and exploitation within the office in addition to for the safeguarding of all of the labor rights of the employees for the good thing about each themselves and the nationwide economic system typically.
Supply: KYPE
