Undercutting Britain's Wages

The following comment was submitted to an article in the Daily Mail, linked here, by Chris Cooke, but remains unpublished some 12 hours after submission: I've read a lot about this now and NOBODY is talking about the root of the problem. This is CONTRACT LAW. The Big Companies are acting all innocent. Time to let the cat out of the bag (if this gets printed!). Here's the con. We have Union rates in this country. But when the contract is given to a company in another country they are allowed to pay their workers below those minimum rates. That cannot happen with British contractors. Foreign companies can even pay their staff below our legal minimum wage. Cheap foreign contracts is why these big companies are making everything into contracts now instead of employing individual workers. When the contract is finished the foreign workers either go on the dole, go home (possibly?) or become part of a new contract. That's the con - and the politicians, the big companies AND the unions know all about it! They should be ashamed. This is NO level playing field for British workers - no matter what they may try to claim."