Posted workers: Germany also decided to "clean up" in the contracts

In the boning shops or on the slaughter lines, they work side by side, performing the same tasks. Only the color of their helmets can distinguish them: white for the employees of the slaughterhouse, red or yellow for those of the subcontractors from Eastern Europe. From January 2021, all will wear the same headgear, on the grounds that the use of posted work, and any other form of subcontracting, will be prohibited in the meat industry across the Rhine.

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Foreign workers will have to be hired by the companies where they work, therefore with the same contract as their German colleagues. A revolution, in an industry that employs massively, through Polish, Romanian and Bulgarian service providers who can then represent in large slaughterhouses up to 90% of the staff, according to the agribusiness union NGG.

Many abuses

In an aging country with a chronic labor shortage, the use of foreign workers is not up for debate.

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