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Dark factories: labour exploitation in Britain?s garment industry
17 May 2018
Last year, the government appointed Sir David Metcalf to a newly created post: director of labour market enforcement. He published his first strategy last week, devoting a page to Leicester’s garment sector. “While some enforcement action has been undertaken in this sector and city over the last few years, this has clearly not had an effective impact on overall compliance,” the report said.
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The Scotsman
David Metcalf: The £3.1 billion scandal of ‘wage theft’ by employers
Sir David Metcalf, director of Labour Market Enforcement, lays out his plan to tackle ‘wage theft’ that takes billions of pounds out of pay packets every year.
Related publications:
United Kingdom Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2018/19, Director of Labour Market Enforcement David Metcalf, May 2018.