For other inquiries, Contact Us. The National Crime Agency confirmed to the Sun on Sunday that it had visited clothes factories in the city. Are the windows covered or usual entry points blocked? If they speak out, then they risk being sent back to a situation that may not be much better than that which they are currently enduring. We can’t expect to have decent workplaces without proper enforcement of our labour laws. There’s a very straightforward way to solve this: repeal the illegal working offence and introduce “secure reporting”, which ensures any reports of workplace abuse are kept separate from immigration enforcement. Photographer Rory Carnegie, said: “In the 80s, Chris Killip published a series of images called In Flagrante, and these images were at the forefront of my mind while composing this shot. The National Crime Agency (NCA) is investigating concerns of human trafficking and slavery in Britain’s new coronavirus hotspot of Leicester, after claims that sweatshops paying less than half the minimum wage remained open during the lockdown in the multicultural city. We’ve become inured to the decline of unions, and yet Covid-19 demonstrates their importance: without them ensuring that health and safety rules – like social distancing and PPE – are observed, this job is left to business. Exploited agriculture workers often don’t have suitable protective equipment, working instead in cheap sports clothing and trainers, and don’t have a different change of clothes from day-to-day. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click here. Properly funded labour inspection, ensuring reporting abuse is safe for migrant workers, and strong unionisation are the foundations of a decent and healthy labour market. A Member of Parliament has linked illegal sweatshops in Leicester, England, to the coronavirus outbreaks which have seen the city put into special lockdown measures, as a parliamentary committee takes Internet retailers employing their services to task and law enforcement carry out a spate of modern slavery arrests elsewhere in the country.
Please let us know if you're having issues with commenting. Slave workers are also likely to work extremely long work hours for six or seven days a week without any leave. Spot the signs of exploitative labour in construction: Exploited workers are often not provided with protective clothing or equipment, and may show signs of abuse or carry old untreated injuries. Explosive from @ABridgen on last night's @Unlocked_UK_ re #modernslavery in Leicester, "What you've got is an endemic culture of poverty & oppression, working out of buildings that should be demolished, "This is a stain not only on Leicester, but on our whole country" pic.twitter.com/VQASqzki3i, — Martin Daubney (@MartinDaubney) July 10, 2020. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? In an interview with BBC Breakfast on Monday, Soulsby said, “It was clear from discussions we were having last week with them [the UK Department of Health] that they haven’t yet got a clue how on earth they’re going to measure what constitutes success in this.”.
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However, this does not include the hidden majority of victims, who have yet to be identified. “The more I look at Leicester, the more it appears that although the Labour Party is notionally in charge, they are in fact only presiding over a city where the criminals are ruling the roost through a combination of intimidation and cultural blackmail in the knowledge that the authorities are so scared of the potential accusations of racism, that they dare not challenge the Dickensian conditions and the racketeering that exist in “their part“ of city,” Bridgen lamented.
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