In the clip above, you can hear the union chairman reasoning about problems with subcontractors on construction sites.

Tomas Emanuelsson immediately says that he can not comment on the individual case.

His own members at the company in question have not signaled that anything is wrong.

But it is clear that three employees reported their employer to the police and claimed that they were forced to pay back up to half the net salary to their managers, and that this had been going on for a long time.

According to the complainants, all employees were affected by the same thing.

When NCC became aware of the police report, the construction group began its own investigation, which on Thursday evening resulted in the contract with the subcontractor being broken with immediate effect.

More common

According to Tomas Emanuelsson, it has become increasingly common for construction groups to get rid of their own employees and instead buy services from subcontractors, often from abroad.

It also makes it more difficult for the union to know if these employees work under reasonable conditions.

- It is almost impossible for us to see.

We must fight for that in each individual case, he says.

And it will be even more difficult if the employees on paper receive a contractual salary, but then are forced to pay back parts of it.

- I have heard about this before, as a way to get away.

I can not answer how many cases there are, but it is too common, says Tomas Emanuelsson.

Own personell

According to him, it looked different on construction sites fifteen years ago.

Back then, it was essentially a single company that built everything.

Today, it is not uncommon for ten companies to be on a construction site.

His recipe for dealing with the situation is that the large construction companies in Sweden stick to their own staff instead of selling parts of the contract to subcontractors.

- So I say: "NCC, hire them yourself instead, pay salaries to them as you have always done!"