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Stop abuse of migrant workers before Britain becomes the next Dubai | Pete Pattisson

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Exploitation common in the Gulf is emerging in the UK – and will only get worse without government intervention

Impoverished migrant workers forced to pay thousands of pounds in illegal recruitment fees, housed in squalid accommodation and unable to leave their jobs voluntarily. Is this Qatar? UAE? Saudi Arabia? No, it’s post-Brexit Britain.

Revelations that Nepali workers have allegedly been forced to pay extortionate fees to agents in Nepal for their jobs on a British farm supplying some of our leading supermarkets are just the latest in a series of shocking reports. Such cases expose how the UK is adopting practices commonly seen in the Gulf, a region with an appalling record of labour abuse.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3KfOEiG

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