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Because if they don't pay the fees, they
don't have any more visa to stay here.

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So just try to understand.

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I am telling you the
background of what

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I experience as a migrant,
the how the situation is here.

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So if you get a
really good job here

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as a student in any food chain or whatever
the problem is, when you are student,

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you don't speak the language and you
do not have any professional education.

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So you will get maximum €14,
€15 per hour a job here.

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So you are allowed to work
20 hours per week.

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So a student can earn

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maximum up to
€1,000 a month.

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If they get a full job.
Then they have to pay €800

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installment in the
private university.

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And because they don't
have a job contract

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you don't get
a flat here.

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It is not possible simply
to get your own flat

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because of having this financial
stability or a job contract.

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So there are many houses,
many flats in Berlin.

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In one room there
are 4 to 5 people.

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They live together and
they pay up to 400, €500

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just to get one
mattress in that room.

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So you are paying,

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to this university.

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You have to pay
for this house rent.

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You need money for
your existence here.

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You need food.

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And then you have to send money
back home to pay this debt.

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So, I mean, these people,
what will they do?

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They will definitely go to these "fleet
partners" and they will work for them.

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So the basic reason
why I became so angry

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about this thing and why I started
to blog about this thing,

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is when I see

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how difficult it is
for the people to get in the fleet.

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I mean, you just cannot find a job
in the food delivery sector!

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When I help some
students in my office,

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when I look back, three years back,
four years back, it was quite easy.

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It was possible.

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I just call in 1 or 2 companies
or maybe Zeitarbeitsfirma and explain them

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Hey, I have this student,
he is a strong guy.

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He can work in a warehouse,
but he don't speak language.

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And it was easily possible
to find a job for the people.

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But now when I try to call
a "fleet partner",

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they say, okay, look,
we will charge you €500.

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Now, I heard that
it's it cost €1,000

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to get one ID.

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usually it's a fake ID now.
After this movement,

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they are trying to have
a control on these things.

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But usually in
the years 2022, 2023

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the evidence that we gave in the court
for Shiwanis' case is that in that fleet

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it's all fake IDs!

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So there is nothing.

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There is no limit of work.

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You get paid for your order.

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Each order maybe
you get 4, 5 Euros.

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And then at the
end of the week

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the fleet partner

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takes 30% money away from you.
They say: "Because we are paying you

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cash in hand, you don't pay any taxes,
so you have to pay us 30%."

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If you don't want,
you can look for another job.

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So just imagine they have to pay
€500 to get in the fleet,

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and then they get only 70% of what
they earn, - without having a job contract.

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And if you need a job contract, people
need it for their visa extension.

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Then, after one semester,
you are going to Ausländerbehörde

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and you need a job contract.

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So we asked the "fleet partner"

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can you please offer a job
contract to this guy

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for the 20 hours per week that is
allowed and he will still continue

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working 40 hours, 50 hours
in a week, whatever you need.

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And then they say, no,
we don't need

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we don't make any job contracts.

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It's too expensive for us.

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So we buy the job contracts
from the "fleet partners"

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if he's willing to
give us a job contract,

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which is brutto 1,200 Euro,

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then he will calculate
the full taxes,

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the employee's tax and
and the employer's tax.

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I have everything
on my fingertips.

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Just ask me how much brutto,
how much Lohnsteuer...

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So because this is
this is the thing that we deal

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with this thing
and, and the worst thing is,

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we talk

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about this thing for two years,
we talk in the public.

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We organized
a bike rally

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with the food delivery
jackets, with our costumes,

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starting from that fleet partnership
coming to the world headquarter.

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Have a protest there.

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Then we get very big support
from media, many newspapers,

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they write about our,

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incident that happened.

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We filed a lawsuit.

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We were in the labor court.

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Nothing changed.

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Nothing changed.

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This is not the Germany
that I expected that I live.