Gangmasters face losing licences as crackdown reveals exploitation

Nine gangmasters who employ hundreds of migrant workers face having their licences revoked after the largest crackdown of its kind found labourers were being underpaid and forced to live in substandard accommodation, it emerged yesterday.

Officials discovered that labourers employed to pick daffodils and vegetables in Cornwall were being paid below the minimum wage, living in dirty and cramped conditions, and being forced to pay over the odds to be driven to the fields in dangerous vehicles...more>

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