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Poland and The Netherlands are both members of the EU, so immigrant workers from Poland are legal by definition. As for illegal migrant workers I suspect that i
by tormeh 10y ago
Poland and The Netherlands are both members of the EU, so immigrant workers from Poland are legal by definition. As for illegal migrant workers I suspect that it's just not that big of a problem, quantitatively speaking.
- ryanlol 10y agoThere's a plenty of legal migrants working illegally.
- foldr 10y agoPolish people have the right to work in the Netherlands (or any other EU country).
- ryanlol 10y agoYes? You can work illegally in any country by getting paid in cash and not reporting your income. I really don't see where the EU or the nationality of the worker comes in here.
- vertex-four 10y agoThere's significantly less incentive to do that when you don't have to. Or, in other words - why would a Polish worker do that any more than a Dutch person, when both of them are otherwise there entirely legally?
- ryanlol 10y agoThe cheap migrant worker probably doesn't care if he pays the Dutch taxes or not, but his employer will definitely be very happy if he and his coworkers don't. Unreported employment is super common.
- ryanlol 10y agoMust be the americans downvoting me :) This isn't a new thing to anyone in the EU... I think? http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_402_en.pdf http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_402_en.p... Employers have every incentive to save that 30%+ by paying their employees in cash.
- vertex-four 10y agoI skipped to the conclusions as I have no interest in reading over 100 pages, and there is no statement in the conclusions that migrant workers are more likely to perform untaxed work than local workers.