MVO Project again a great success

Since 2010 Payoke has been cooperating with the Faculty of Applied Economics of the University of Antwerp in the framework of the Corporate Social Responsibility (MVO) Project. The implementation of the MVO Project is carried out in groups by students of Master in Commercial Engineering. Students offer their knowledge and expertise for free, as junior consultants. The MVO project has four objectives: to provide a platform where students come into contact with the outside world, including with the non-profit sector; to offer students a broader perspective on society and their active participation; to provide a more varied training from the university; and to help non-profit organizations in Antwerp by offering them free consulting.

The 59th Chamber of the Brussels criminal court acquitted SA Quick and six Quick franchised restaurants of charges concerning the employment of unregistered foreign workers. Quick and its franchises were suspected of complicity in these facts. Illegal workers were employed by cleaning companies who performed subcontracted maintenance Quick many restaurants in Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia.

Elke Sleurs provides a double subsidy for trafficking shelters this year

In 2016, State Secretary for Equal Opportunities, Elke Sleurs, provides an amount of 495 000 euro for the three specialized centers for the reception and support of victims of trafficking. Payoke in Antwerp, Pag - Asa in Brussels and Surya in Liège get, like last year, each 165,000 euros extra on top of their normal funding. That's more than double their funding compared to 2014. Elke Sleurs announced this today during her working visit to Payoke in Antwerp.

Largest smuggling gang ever in Belgium arrested

The federal police of East Flanders delievered a major blow to international smuggling. A gang has been rolled up that smuggled up to twenty migrants a day across the Channel. Ten suspects are in custody.