Customs officials in Furth reveal substantial wage discrepancies at security companies: HZA-R disperses pay to 16 employees
The Regensburg Customs Office is currently investigating a security company based in the southern Upper Palatinate for practicing wage splitting between 2016 and 2021. This practice, which involves dividing one person's salary among several employees, is a deliberate attempt to evade paying or paying insufficient social security contributions, such as for pension, health, or unemployment insurance.
Lead Government Director Matschke, head of the Regensburg Customs Office, has stated that wage splitting harms the social security system and fair competition. The practice creates an unfair advantage for companies that engage in it, as they avoid paying their fair share of social security contributions.
One case under investigation involves a worker whose overtime pay was distributed among 16 different colleagues between 2018 and 2019. In one month, this worker received her salary from four different people, indicating deliberate circumvention of legal regulations.
The Regensburg Public Prosecutor's Office has filed charges against the worker for aiding and abetting the withholding and misappropriation of wages at the Regensburg Regional Court. However, the name of the person charged by the Regensburg customs office is not publicly available.
The defendant, a worker at the investigated security company, made a full confession at the beginning of the main hearing. The Regensburg Customs Office believes that individual companies are deliberately trying to evade their social responsibilities.
The original content of this article was transmitted via news aktuell by the Regensburg Customs Office. For further questions, you can contact Nadine Striegel at telephone: 0941 2086-1503, email: [email protected], or visit their website at www.zoll.de. The Regensburg Regional Court sentenced the defendant to a fine of 2,400 euros.
