The annual report of the Department of Economy, employment, work and solidarity (DEETS) of Reunion Island revealed its usual share of fraud and illicit practices.
Illegal work remains a very present reality on the island’s construction sites., where officials intervened 397 times last year and drew up 47 reports. Agents from the DEETS work center were particularly interested in the prevention of falls from height, to find that the rules were not respected on many small construction sites. Inspections on the construction of individual houses have led to one in three construction sites being stopped for this reason.. The competition department, for its part, has opened around ten procedures for misleading commercial practices.. He controlled a total of 1,772 companies, which resulted in more than 164,000 euros in criminal fines and more than a million euros in administrative fines. The business center, employment and solidarity of the DEETS has for its part uncovered a new type of fraud, around the personal training account (CPF) : 111 people used their CPF, for a total amount of 83,000 euros, to finance their children's driving licenses.
