Hundreds of workers, both nationals and migrant workers from Serbia and the Ukraine, have not been paid their wages by the job agency that employed them for several months. Many of them now remain penniless at a building where the job agency housed them and lack resources to make the journey back home or even to buy food. Last month the police carried out raids on the job agency in question and arrested four men that are accused of smuggling more than a thousand of Serbs and Ukrainians for work in Slovakia and not paying them according to the hours they worked
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