Social inspection services are going to carry out control at Digi

Digi Belgium is a joint venture of the Belgian Citymesh, which offers telecom services to companies, and the Romanian telecom group Digi that is already active in four European countries: Romania, Italy, Portugal and Spain.

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The fourth full -fledged telecom operator in Belgium started at the end of last year with unseen prices and competes Proximus, Telenet and Orange Belgium.

“Save on safety and staff”

In the meantime, the working conditions of the employees who build the Digi network have risen. Het Laatste Nieuws spoke with 24 current and former employees and concludes that the operator is not taking too closely on the safety regulations. Digi would skimp on the expenses for safety and staff. Cheap Romanian workers would work for a minimum wage, but could get a bonus if they pull more than 300 meters of fiber optics per day. According to the newspaper, the servers of a Digi network junction would be in the basement of a house where Romanian workers live next to the laundry room.

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The FPS Employment, Labor and Social Consultation indicates De Tijd that the social inspection services will carry out a check at Digi, under coordination of the social intelligence and investigation service (SIOD). The article in Het Laatste Nieuws is only “one of the elements”. The Brussels Labor Auditorate says it has not yet opened an official investigation into Digi.