Exploitation of migrant workers

Some of the migrant workers labouring on West Cornwall's daffodil and vegetable farms are not being paid the minimum wage.

That's just one of the findings made by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) following a recent multi-agency investigation which has uncovered the different ways the workers have been exploited by some gangmasters.Operation Westport looked at the working and living conditions of migrant workers in West Cornwall.

A total of nine licensed gangmasters were found to be violating standards imposed by the GLA.

The gangmasters were supplying hundreds of mainly Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian and Bulgarian workers to pick daffodils and vegetables... more>