On tackling alleged human trafficking and money laundering while employing non-EU workers 

The petitioner, a Ukrainian worker, has been employed in Poland from the end of 2016 to the beginning of 2019 through a for temporary work agency. In his opinion, the agency managers invented a fake and fraudulent system of employment in order to take advantage of the system and of the employees, without giving them any social guarantees. The conditions of employment were unsafe for their health and illegal in the light of the Polish law. He evokes that having been outsourced for more than 2 years by this agency, major parts of his salaries were not declared and non-taxed, and the exceeding of the standard working hours was not remunerated. He has addressed the Polish regulatory institutions, the judiciary and the media in this regard. The petitioner’s main accusations are alleged breaches of Directive 2009/52/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 providing for minimum standards on sanctions and measures against employers of illegally staying third-country nationals, Directive 2011/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 April 2011 on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims and Directive (EU) 2018/1673 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on combating money laundering by criminal law.