Current Affairs Czechs fall victim to bogus U.K. job offers
Tens of thousands of Eastern Europeans work in the United Kingdom illegally as seasonal farmhands, in fish-processing factories, on construction sites, in hotels, and the like. Such jobs are in great demand, and swindlers have taken full advantage. A reporter for the BBC recently infiltrated a group who fell victim to false promises of work in the U.K; bogus job mediators — some of them Czech — had been meeting their victims at British airports, taking hefty referral fees, giving contact details for phantom employers — and promptly disappearing, leaving the would-be job seekers stranded.
James Sheridan, photo: http://www.james-sheridan-mp.org.uk
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