Palma hotelier arrested for exploiting employees: 12-hour days and 1,000 euros per month
National Police arrested a hospitality businessman in Palma accused of imposing shifts of up to 12 hours without holidays and wages of 1,000 €/month.
Palma businessman arrested on suspicion of labour exploitation of workers in irregular situation
The National Police has arrested a hotelier in Palma accused of subjecting several employees to working conditions that allegedly breach current legislation, according to information reported by Google News ES — Crime (es) citing data from the Superior Police Headquarters of the Balearic Islands.
The affected workers stated that they worked shifts of up to 12 hours daily, sometimes during night hours, and that they only had one rest day per week when circumstances permitted. None had taken holidays. Remuneration did not exceed 1,000 euros per month, a figure that the employees themselves accepted, according to their accounts, due to the need to financially support their families in their countries of origin.
The investigation began in the previous summer, when officers from the Provincial Brigade for Foreigners and Borders detected during a routine inspection that one of the establishment's workers was in an irregular administrative situation. Following that intervention, the Labour and Social Security Inspectorate imposed a fine of 10,000 euros on the businessman.
This summer, officers verified that the same hotelier was keeping two other people in an irregular situation in the same restaurant and a third in a business he had recently opened. The working conditions, in addition to not conforming to what was agreed in the contracts, allegedly breached regulations on shift duration, rest periods, holidays and minimum wages.
The businessman was arrested as the suspected perpetrator of a crime against workers' rights, in accordance with information released by the National Police and distributed by Europa Press.
Source: Google News ES — Crime (es)