Foreign Workers Underpaid at Helsinki School Project Linked to Organised Crime
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Foreign workers underpaid at Helsinki school project linked to organised crime
A state-funded school renovation project in Helsinki has become the centre of a labour exploitation scandal involving unpaid wages, false employment records and a subcontractor allegedly managed from an Estonian prison by a man convicted of involvement in organised crime. Finland's Construction Union (Rakennusliitto) identified the suspected violations at the Valteri Ruskis school in Ruskeasuo, which serves children and young people requiring sp…
At the state school construction site in Ruskeasuo, Helsinki, there have been shortcomings in the payment of wages, and employed workers have been disguised as entrepreneurs.
A subcontractor is being controlled from an Estonian prison when the Valteri School for children with special needs is being renovated. Another subcontractor is exploiting foreign labor and ignoring the law, claims the Finnish Construction Federation, which has investigated conditions at the construction site.
Vantaan Sanomat
LänsiväyläForeign labor was used illegally at a state construction site in Helsinki, according to the Finnish Construction Federation.
The incident paints a dangerous picture of the state as a client of construction work, says Toni Malmström, an expert at the association. Several incidents have occurred at the school renovation site in Helsinki commissioned by Senate Properties
The trampling of the working conditions of foreign workers is also reflected in the domestic workforce, says Toni Malmström, senior expert at the Finnish Construction Federation.
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