Foreign workers are “running away” from employers and going to those who pay more or offer better working conditions.

Five Nepalese workers did not show up for work at a company in Dubrava in Međimurje, and the police, called by the employer, only confirmed that they had “voluntarily” left the company and departed with mobile phones and work clothes.

This is not the only such example. Foreign workers are “running away” from employers and going to those who pay more or offer better working conditions.

After they “check in” in Croatia and obtain papers, for some the new goal is Germany or another Western European country. “Yes, this happens. The employer waits for the worker for several months, and then he defects. There is certain knowledge that some agencies that bring workers from Nepal to Croatia have organized routes to further place them in another labor market.

We have not had such problems because we mediate exclusively in the employment of workers from the Philippines. The Philippines has a ministry that controls its citizens working abroad. It is not like that with other countries,” says Stjepan Jagodin from an agency for the employment of workers from the Philippines.

He points out that in the first seven months, 9,893 employers requested approval to employ foreign workers for 396 different occupations.

By July, around 60,000 employment permits had been issued. Leading the way are waiters, construction workers, cooks, chambermaids, and other manufacturing occupations.

Source: poslovni.hr