Three people in charge of a renovation and cleaning services company in Alicante have been arrested on at least one charge of workplace abuse. 21 immigrants. These are two men and a woman of Spanish nationality placed at the disposal of the Alicante Court of Investigation. Detainees took advantage of the victims’ irregular situation and employed them without a work contract and subjecting them to excessive working hours.
Victims mostly refugee countries, As reported by the National Police Approximately 12-hour “marathon” dayswith no fixed end time to their days, and They could only rest for one day one week.
Regarding the salary, Polis emphasizes that “the salary was well below It was established according to the employment contract. In fact, some of the victims had been working at the company for two years; “Those who were arrested were taking advantage of their irregular situation, knowing that these employees had no other source of income.”
The arrest followed an investigation carried out by the National Police after the UCRIF III Anti-Illegal Migration Networks and Document Fraud Unit of the Alicante Provincial Police Station learned the facts.
Investigation
During the initial police investigation, agents learned that the company was managed by two people, a man and a woman, registered as self-employed and that they were responsible for three employees. However, despite the data reflected from Social Security, the investigation by the National Police found that there were approximately 25 people wearing clothes with company logos and entering and leaving the offices with cleaning products and kitchen utensils. “Then, they went to different buildings in the city of Alicante with various vehicles belonging to the cleaning company and carried out cleaning work.”
The representatives cooperated with the Alicante Labor Inspector and together with them an inspection and search of the cleaning company was carried out.
Check
Agents present in offices during inspection total 29 peopleTwo of them are representatives of the company and 27 people The remaining company employees, only three of whom were enrolled in Social Security. The rest of the 24 workers in total had no employment contracts and 21 of them were in an irregular situation in Spain.
Given these events, agents arrested two agents of the company and the person in charge of the company. Membership in a criminal group that supports irregular migration and is against workers’ rights.
A “B account”
Agents also found documents “accounting B” The company in question is also continuing its investigation to determine whether the detained people also committed a possible crime. Money laundering.
Regarding the influence within the industry to which this business network is dedicated, the National Police emphasize that “this illegal course of action allows them to make offers.” “Prices in the industry are so competitive that there is almost no competition.”They created a collapse in labor prices by offering services at prices far below the costs that legitimate companies could not compete with.