Data-sharing
WHEN OUR WORKPLACES ARE FREE OF EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE, WE ALL BENEFIT
Labour inspections are designed to keep us all safe at work - but our hostile environment undermines them.
Workers with insecure immigration status often face exploitation and abuse at work. But if they speak up, they can be handed over to the Home Office, locked up and ripped away from their communities.
“They pay us less than minimum wage. We work at least 12 hours per shift, for £6 an hour.
“We are afraid to speak up because we are so worried to lose our rights here. Even when some inspectors are coming we are afraid to talk to them”
Local authorities are responsible for around 50% of labour inspections - and there’s nothing in the law that says they have to share workers’ data with the Home Office.
We’re calling on local authorities to pledge not to share workers’ data with the Home Office, so that all workers can report exploitation and abuse at work.
“Our decision was taken in order to protect vulnerable people.
”It means vulnerable people not becoming victims of abuse and exploitation, and instead being able to live with more dignity”
