As many as 800 North Korean "slave labourers" are working in the shipbuilding and construction sectors in Poland, in some cases for companies that are receiving financial support from the European Union.
A report by academics from the Leiden Asia Centre, working with lawyers and human rights activists, claims the North Korean workers' salaries are paid to managers and repatriated to Pyongyang. [...]
North Koreans are employed by 32 companies in Poland and are required to put in more than 12 hours of work a day, six days a week.
But the complex network of companies that employ them and the paperwork they are issued with make it difficult for authorities to track all the North Korean workers, meaning it is possible that more workers have been "loaned on" to companies elsewhere in the EU.
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