Gangmaster licence
Published: 28 August 2008
The Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA) has revoked the licence of a Lincolnshire gangmaster who attempted to evade inspection on a number of occasions.
Mr Marcin Porawski, owner of MPES Labour Agency in Leverton, Lincolnshire was declared not a ‘fit and proper’ person to hold a GLA licence.
Porawski did not appeal against the decision and is obliged to cease trading in the GLA regulated sectors or face prosecution for operating without a licence.
Porawski’s licence was revoked due to his failure to co-operate with the GLA, his business being not up to date with tax and National Insurance payments and workers being transported on makeshift benches made up of planks and breeze blocks in the back of a van.
Paul Whitehouse, chairman of the GLA, said: “We shall continue to protect the rights of workers and ensure that all gangmaster businesses meet basic legal requirements. It is wrong for workers to have to suffer dangerous conditions and unfair on legitimate businesses if they are undercut by those who break the law.”
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