The ‘worker cloning’ phenomenon by employers

In packing plants, fields, logistics warehouses and hotels crossed Greece, an invisible web reproduces mendacious identities. Illegal immigrants work under a hostage authorities with overseas names, fake documents and nonexistent salaries. The improvement has a name: “Worker cloning.”

“They take a ineligible immigrant, photocopy each his papers – passport, work permit, residence licence – and then merchantability them to the amerciable immigrants who exploit them. Each bundle with the photocopied documents costs 50 euros. This way a idiosyncratic tin work simultaneously successful two oregon three antithetic places,” the caput of the Independent Labor Inspection Authority, Giorgos Tzilivakis, reveals to Kathimerini.

The program is elemental and chillingly effective. According to the authorization and the police, traffickers exploit bureaucracy and people’s request to survive. After a week of ineligible work, an leader fires the worker, but keeps photocopies of his documents. These photocopies are recycled – sold oregon fixed to different amerciable immigrants. Therefore, “Omar al-Hasan” tin beryllium some Raheem from Bangladesh and Ahmed from Sudan, working successful antithetic areas, with the aforesaid look connected paper, but with antithetic faces successful reality.