Brits 'too lazy to pick vegetables'
The company has received planning permission from the government for 52 new caravans where it will house student migrant workers from EU countries. There are already 63 caravans on the site, where about 378 students are already employed.
Staples already employs up to 378 students but the extra numbers will be "sourced directly and predominantly from Romanian and Bulgarian colleges and universities" according to a planning statement given to the local council.
Mr Read said that the decision to go abroad to sign up workers was down to the agency and not his company.
But the company did say that two years ago they received just 11 applications for 130 jobs which they advertised locally.
A Boston cab driver added: "I've got three children of my own and it is difficult for them to get work since all the East Europeans arrived. I don’t think attracting more and putting them in caravans is the answer."
In Eastern European countries like Bulgaria and Romania, the average wage is little more than £6,000 a year while the minimum wage is as little as £2,860. As an extra bonus to workers, there are loop holes, exploited particularly in the building industry, which allow companies to pay the national insurance for these workers in their country of origin where the rate is much lower than in the UK.
Source: breitbart.com