The behavior of an employer from Romania who brought workers from Asia. “He called me saying he was starving on the street”

Along with the increase in the number of workers from outside the European Union, the number of those who choose to leave us illegally for Western countries also increases.

They often stay to collect a few wages, then cross the border in search of higher incomes. This is how employers end up starting over, with new costs of bringing them into the country, but also a wait of up to six months. There are also cases where workers leave because of the inhumane conditions in which they are kept here.

Lakpa came to Romania for almost seven years. He also brought his family, his wife and two children, and in time he became the leader of the Nepalese community. He speaks openly about illegal departures of workers coming from Asia.

Lhakpa Tenji Lama, worker: “I have some friends from Nepal who left here illegally, who fled from Romania to other countries. They earn more money in the Schengen countries than in Romania, money through illegal work.”

A Romanian employer needs approximately 700 euros to bring a worker from outside the European Union to the country. This amount includes fees to institutions, translations and legalizations, as well as the fee for the recruitment agency. In addition to this amount, the salary is added, around 500 euros, as well as accommodation and food.

Al Dabeek Kamal, employer: “For example, I even brought people in December, 15 people were supposed to come for me personally. They fled from the airport, from Bucharest. So they didn’t get to me at the factory, from the airport. I have an employee who ran away alone a month ago, he called me from Italy to take him back to work, because he is starving on the street.”

Some foreigners choose Romania only as a starting point for Western countries. So lately there have been groups trying to convince them to move to countries like Italy.

In a response to Știrile Pro TV, the Border Police said that it “monitors the materials published in the online environment and intervenes, through checks and other measures according to the situations identified within its competence”.

Corina Constantin, vice-president of the Employers’ Association of Labor Importers from Romania: “It has been proven in recent years that employees from Pakistan and Bangladesh have a predisposition towards illegal migration. The most important thing is that they lose their right to legally enter the territory of another EU state. The moment they choose to leave the country illegally, they can no longer have a valid residence permit and visa in another EU state.”

In some cases, foreigners who come to work leave Romania also because of the bad conditions in which they are accommodated. This is also the case with a group of 17 workers from Sri Lanka. Employed at a company in Sinaia, they said they were unpaid and living in conditions hard to imagine.

According to the data of the Border Police, over 6,300 foreign citizens who tried to cross the border illegally were detected in the last year alone, most of them in Hungary.