Industrial recruitment firm Extrastaff is considering requesting a judicial review, following the revocation of its gangmaster licence by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA).

Last week, the GLA revoked Extrastaff’s licence after it found four breaches of regulations including: missing worker file details, inadequate worker contracts, incomplete training records and an inadequate contract between the labour user and provider which did not specify who was responsible for worker health and safety.

An Extrastaff spokesperson told Recruiter that its legal team is finalising recommendations on its best course of action including requesting a judicial review, filing a defamation claim or a meeting with the GLA on how best to proceed.

Tim Millward, chairman of Extrastaff, claims the GLA’s actions have blocked an appeal which would have vindicated Extrastaff from the original alleged four minor breaches of procedure.

Millward said: “We had a meeting with the lawyers and they are debating the options. This is causing ructions everywhere, so we are trying to get this resolved as quickly as we can.

“This is not about whether Extrastaff breached GLA protocols — it’s now about procedure in what is patently a flawed system.

“We know that we were originally judged on four minor breaches of protocol — but two of these so-called breaches were based on blatantly incorrect findings against which we immediately appealed to put the record straight.

“We still want our appeal to be heard, as we are totally confident of the outcome,” he asserted.

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) says it is considering the revocation and is following up the matter with both the GLA and Extrastaff.