Most are small businesses - workshops housed in crumbling buildings that are in desperate need of repair.For decades there have been claims some factories pay workers well below £8.72 per hour, the national minimum wage.
She says she has been contacted by anonymous workers who are too scared to speak out publicly because many are in the country illegally. "We've been aware of this for a very long time and have been working with enforcement agencies to try to ensure that there is effective regulation enforcement."There are just too many organisations, HMRC [HM Revenue & Customs], the GLAA [Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority], the HSE [Health and Safety Executive] and others have enforcement responsibilities. There needs to be one enforcement body and that needs to be set up as quickly as possible.
A Home Office spokesperson said:"We take all allegations of modern slavery extremely seriously and are determined to ensure ruthless criminals who exploit vulnerable people face the full force of the law.
Give 'em time, it's only been going on for 60 yrs. The only difference is some can speak English. They come from a culture where women are oppressed and do as they're told. They go along with that from fear of the men in their lives; fathers, husbands, bosses, job loss. 🦠😷
A lot of the people that come from india who reside in Leicester are illegal immigrants Immigration Brexit
But they aren't black so who cares
Nowonder some prefer to keep out of these sweat shops, and take up other careers in the city, like the Romanian rent boys, what you say, slippery keith alias jim Vaz.🤔
Black lives.... oh wait
£2-£3 an hour in the UK...this open secret happens in India working in crumbling poorly built buildings that collapse and kill regularly but wait this is the UK and 100,000 exploited people working in unacceptable conditions nd nobody has done anything about it smells racist bias
Where is Keith Vaz? I thought he would be the first person fighting for the rights of these people? Oh sorry escorts & coke are more important!
How could this be going on in our country, this is not China, people in authority in Leicester should be held accountable for this, clearly it was allowed to go on.
Good old labour ran council there 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I will wait here for the massive demonstration and violent outrage.
Send any illegals right home.
I hope your all going to give up your designer clothes now you’ve run this story
Horrible that people knew about this but not enough effort was made by those in charge to expose/stop this exploitation
Cobid made us all slaves
...meanwhile CityMayorLeic jonathanashworth leicesterliz and all but one Labour councillors complicit in modern slavery expansion and coverup. Sack and prosecute them all! 🤮🙈🙉🙊
If people just would pay a little bit more....
Thanks min wage.
Deport them all and send the bill to the factory owners.
100,000 slaves in the UK? Wow!! Shocking!! But not surprising, I heard there was almost 68 million slaves to the system
You can't blame the white man for this slavery Sky News. Multiculturalism is destroying Britain.
Whaaaaat?
Late Capitalism is not to dissimilar to early capitalism. A Devolving system
Three Labpur MPs, a Labour mayor and a Labour council in Leicester. JustSaying
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