UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANT WORKERS
Fair
working conditions
PICUM Action Plan
Organizations working on this theme
The
right to fair working conditions
In recent years, PICUM members have increasingly indicated the importance of working on the issue of the protection of undocumented workers. These organizations are confronted on a continual basis with situations of abuse and exploitation of undocumented workers.
Undocumented workers
often work long hours, in dangerous and/or unhygienic conditions. Many do not
receive their wages or receive less than was agreed upon and/or are fired
without being given due notice, etc. If they suffer from an industrial accident,
the lack of official proof of employment renders it complicated and often
impossible to have any health care refunded. If they are apprehended due to
illegal labour, undocumented workers will most of the time be deported without
being able to claim their last wages.
Several
actors have indicated the urgent need to find a solution to this distorted
situation, in which undocumented migrants are criminalized and chased on the one
hand, and desired and exploited on the other hand.
PICUM Action Plan on the Protection of Undocumented Workers
May
2003 International
conference
on
undocumented migrant workers, European Parliament, Brussels en
français
Conference
report entitled "Undocumented Migrant Workers in Europe"
and
recommendations (2003)
Report (October 2005) entitled "Ten Ways to Protect Undocumented Migrant Workers"
Organisations that work with and advocate for undocumented migrant workers
18 December : International Migrants' Day Joint Comments of PICUM, ETUC and SOLIDAR on Expected Commission Proposals to Fight 'Illegal' Employment and a letter to the Slovenian Presidency
Joint
comments on the expected Commission proposals to fight ‘illegal’ employment
and exploitative working conditions
by PICUM, Solidar and the European Trade Union Confederation
(ETUC)