Labor Inspection detects considerable amount of illegal employment on building site on Bonaire
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BONAIRE (Caribbean Netherlands) - The Labor Inspection was rather shocked by the number of foreigners who perform illegal work on a large construction in Kralendijk. Late October 2015 the KPCN and the Labor Inspection performed an inspection here.
Reason for this action were several complaints about dismissal and illegal employment, which were filed with the SZW Unit’s Labor Affairs department. Therefore the action was aimed at observance of the Labour Law Foreigners [Wet arbeid vreemdelingen], while checking whether there was any illegal employment.
Employers of 23 of the 37 employed foreigners did not have a work permit or did not have the proper work permit. This means that 62% of the foreigners was working illegally on this construction.
In addition it was checked whether the employees were working safely.
Generally the work on the construction was performed safely, which is worth a compliment.
A report of the action and the results can be found in a special factsheet of the Labor Inspection.
The Labour Inspection considers it important that there is a healthy labour market, which after all is in everyone’s interest. The Labour Inspection will therefore continue to work for a safe and healthy workplace. (RCN Caribbean Netherlands)