BBC News - Romanian workers reveal true cost of beauty
This is a story about Romanian workers who were tricked into coming to the UK to sell cosmetics on a “commission-only”, “self-employed” basis. This involved selling the products in a department store and being paid only for what they sold, not for the time they spent trying to sell them. The result was that on some days, the workers might receive only £4 for the whole day. However, they were also charged above market rates for accommodation, which one worker has described as “very dirty”.
The brand, “Ever Since”, is a ‘luxury’ brand and the products contain minerals sourced from the Dead Sea. Here is the website of the company that runs their website. Yep, they’re Israeli. (I didn’t realise this when I first noticed this story.) I wonder what the name “Ever Since” actually refers to? Not a name you’d readily think of when trying to come up with a name for cosmetics. It has a sort of ring a bit like “time immemorial”.
Regardless of Ever Since’s origins, self-employment is a common scam and it’s an easy way for companies to get around responsibilities of handling employees’ tax and National Insurance and even paying them a decent wage. It’s one thing to use commission-only and self-employment when someone is out of supervision and when it’s up to them to go out and drum up business, but quite another when someone is working eight hours a day in a department store.
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How very convenient of these stores to deny knowledge. How a department store such as Debenhams could be selling these stupid products without incredible inducements is difficult to imagine.
Just shows how the cosmetic industry is a rip-off industry with nothing but shiny bottles and packaging.
They are owned by a group called Danbar whether they call themselves Danbar Spa, Danbar Toys etc. Here is what they said on their http://www.danbartoys.com/about-danbar-toys: QCEF Commitment
They must be having a laugh!
The never ending story of the big guys making an extra buck at the expense if the little guys quality of life. Subhan Allah. Sumayah Hassan´s last blog ..Saving Sajdah
Hello,my name is Adrian,
All about this israelians company is true.There are a lot of this companies in all the UK.(for exemple CHICANE EUROPE LTD) In this company works only romanian peoples because they pay us only on comisions whitout a bassic salary(we are self-employed) and we stay in there flats and we stay 5-6 people in one flat and we pay 260 pounds of each person of the company and for this flats the company pay 300-400 pounds.They always have to win something after us.Also we have problems with the salary because they don t pay at time and they don t pay all the salary(always there are some mistaches but on their side).We have a contract signed witch the company doesn t respect. This is our company(CHICANE EUROPE LTD) and after them we don t have right here because we are in another country but after me they don t respect the british law.We work and 12 hours on day and in the contract is write that we have to work 8 hours.And if we don t work how they told us we take penality between 10-50 pounds.in contract also write that we have a bassic for the first month(800pounds) but nobody see this sallary from them and also they say that the first month we don t pay rent but when they send the page slip whit the salary the rent it was taked.And if we say something they tell us that resiliate the contract that they don t need our services.This company doesn t respect nobody.I don t now but in our country is a law witch you have to respect but here i see that everybody makes what want to do.And i think that we have some rights because we are self employed.We come here with contract because they say that we have a bassic and after that we have a comission but when we arrived here they change all. We don t have bassic we work only at comission and that because they don t want to pay taxes. And i don t understand how it work this sistem and nobody see nothing because we work in the most popular and biggest stores from UK(HOUSE OF FRASERS).What we do here is all lies. This company do not respect the low, do not respect the people, do not respect nothing and i think that somebody has to make something in this side. I trust in BBC and i hope that this subject will not stay like this in dark.
Adrian, da-mi un e-mail te rog la: jin.beam@ymail.com daca vezi mesajul asta plz. Am fost “angajat” de astia de la chicane si as vrea sa stiu mai multe despre cum ti-a fost tie. Mersi!
People should be carefull working for companies from this country especially if it means they will man stalls in public:
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