Posted January 28, 2015
So, I was reading the news this morning when I stumbled upon this:
http://www.laprovince.be/1199608/article/2015-01-27/ouvrierpolonaisbe-l-affiche-publicitaire-qui-choque-a-charleroi
It's a well-known fact that many EU construction companies employs Eastern-EU labour as they're cheaper than our people (and I don't blame Eastern people for that, I would gladly move if I could earn twice or thrice for the same job) but here it has reached a new level of cynism with this company which translates as "Polish Workers" and their public ads.
I went to their website which has different content depending on your language (choose in the up-right corner):
http://dm-solutions.pl/en
http://dm-solutions.pl/pl
http://poolsevakman.be/nl
http://poolsevakman.be/fr
The English and Polish versions are somehow "normal" (hey, If you're Polish, I guess you can apply for a job).
Things get more cynical on the Belgian version in both dutch and french versions when they claim:
"The cost of labour is often the biggest cost for a company. The difference between what the employee gets at the end in Belgium and what the company pays is not a normal situation anymore! The difference is too big!" (dutch version)
Then there is an extra paragraph only in the French version about their experience working with Polish labour which gets a bit sadly funny when they use almost the same wordings than with mail-bride orders:
"Working with Polish labour was a dream, they were professionnal, motivated, true workers, they even went a step further and asked to do extra hours ; they just wanted to work! Polish were optimistic, happy and grateful for their salary."
I guess we can go burn the European parliament now.... :o)
http://www.laprovince.be/1199608/article/2015-01-27/ouvrierpolonaisbe-l-affiche-publicitaire-qui-choque-a-charleroi
It's a well-known fact that many EU construction companies employs Eastern-EU labour as they're cheaper than our people (and I don't blame Eastern people for that, I would gladly move if I could earn twice or thrice for the same job) but here it has reached a new level of cynism with this company which translates as "Polish Workers" and their public ads.
I went to their website which has different content depending on your language (choose in the up-right corner):
http://dm-solutions.pl/en
http://dm-solutions.pl/pl
http://poolsevakman.be/nl
http://poolsevakman.be/fr
The English and Polish versions are somehow "normal" (hey, If you're Polish, I guess you can apply for a job).
Things get more cynical on the Belgian version in both dutch and french versions when they claim:
"The cost of labour is often the biggest cost for a company. The difference between what the employee gets at the end in Belgium and what the company pays is not a normal situation anymore! The difference is too big!" (dutch version)
Then there is an extra paragraph only in the French version about their experience working with Polish labour which gets a bit sadly funny when they use almost the same wordings than with mail-bride orders:
"Working with Polish labour was a dream, they were professionnal, motivated, true workers, they even went a step further and asked to do extra hours ; they just wanted to work! Polish were optimistic, happy and grateful for their salary."
I guess we can go burn the European parliament now.... :o)