Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 August 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants
Ms Nora Labo:
Okay, fine. There are several agencies involved. They regularly pay people less and offer worse conditions than those who are directly employed, if they can get away with it. This is systemic among agencies and the situation is only corrected when there is an inspection or a whistleblower goes to the WRC. One of the main agencies in the sector has been pursuing the scheme we have tried to describe today for years. Workers who were working full-time and were employed full-time in Ireland were declared as self-employed contractors from Poland and all their social contributions were paid to the Polish revenue-----
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