Actually the "eastern Europeans on two-year work permits" are getting a free holiday plus pay, possibly better than they will get at home ...

"Free holiday"? They are coming to work for low wages in terms of local cost of living, and in many cases at undesirable hours. And perhaps changing shift hours. That doesn't sound like a holiday/vacation to me. Of course it is "travel" of sorts, with exposure to a different country.

And "possibly better than they will get at home"? Of course! That's why they will travel half way around the world and leave their family and familiar places for these locally low-pay jobs. And "better" is a very relative term.

Dave Oesterreich