Fast food chains fined for illegally employing migrant workers
Fast food chains fined for illegally employing migrant workers
By Thomas Grove, Daily Express UK
Monday, 5 December 2015
A group of food chains have been fined £3.4 million for hiring illegal immigrants from Africa to work at their restaurants. A total of 8,069 foreign workers, who had been hired after the end of 2015, were brought into Britain with no authorization from their employers.
The fines are a resul블랙 잭t of an investigation carried out by The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The food chain owners, which are all based in the UK, all employ “agastro-agricultural workers”, who do not yet hold citize카지노 게임nship or have a green card. The workers are paid minimum wage, are not entitled to benefits and are subject to a criminal record check.
The report found that the workers are “subhuman” to the British government, with “grossly low” safety standards, poor working conditions, and dangerous working conditions.
As the Food Standards Agency (FSA) explained: “These workers are forced to work in low to zero-paid jobs, where they are required to work in hazardous conditions that would be beyond the capability of most people, in environments where there are no controls on their work or other workers, and in locations where they are under constant threat of violence or death.”
On average, the workers in this situation have been working in the UK for 25.8 weeks, and some workers have been working for as long as 75 weeks.
Most employers also hire them without permits and refuse them benefits. Some restaurants are so notorious that they even have their own slang for them – in the words of the FSA report: “we do not hire any illegals.”
Citing statistics from the FSA, HMRC also said that the illegal employment of Africans by small and independent chains such as McDonald’s, has become a serious crime.
A total of 2,027 African migrants from Somalia and Sudan have come into the UK to work at the chain.
They have been paid between £200 to £300, with many of these being exploited or exploited badly, and some have been subjected to violence or온라인 카지노 had their wages robbed, the report said.
The number of Somali workers found to be on the verge of becoming illegal workers rose from 885 in 2014 to 903 in 2015, with an increase in the number in this category in recent months.
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