Making what’s good for workers, work for business.
Impactt has recently come across a case of bonded labour in a factory in Eastern Europe. Migrant workers were brought from Asia and had to pay huge amounts of money to travel to and work in Europe. Behind the deposits and the debt, lie the stories of many migrant workers who leave their country [...]
A New Deal for Agency Workers’ Rights
The government have this week revealed a new deal between businesses and trade unions which is to give agency and temporary workers employment parity with permanent workers after 12 weeks at work.
The measures should come in to force during the next session of Parliament, provided the government is able to ensure that agency workers [...]
A recent Guardian leader raised the issue of ‘unheard workers’ in the UK who are suffering under abhorrent conditions working for agencies in industries such as agriculture and food packing. The leader states that, in direct contrast to the issues of foreign sweatshops and labour standards in the garment industry, the issues in our [...]
Gordon Brown last week announced that he will bring together the Trades Union Congress and the Confederation of British Industry to form a commission of inquiry to assess the rights of Temporary and Agency workers in the UK. The commission will be chaired by Sir George Bain, the former chairman of the Low Pay [...]