Recruiters urged to do more to tackle labour exploitation

Recruiters have been urged to do more to help tackle the scourge of modern slavery, as a new report suggests potentially thousands of instances of labour exploitation is going unreported.

The report, ‘The Nature and Scale of Labour Exploitation Across All Sectors Within The UK’, released by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) today, lays bare the true extent of labour exploitation and...

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