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13.04.23

Is Work Working?

‘It’s almost the same as living on the street’: this is how people picking your vegetables have to live

Forced to share beds and live in freezing caravans with leaking ceilings, all while paying more per square foot than for a flat in London – migrant farm workers reveal their shocking, squalid living c...

05.04.23

Is Work Working?

Migrant workers are being ripped off by employers on farms

Farm workers are having hundreds of pounds unlawfully deducted from their payslips, an investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and VICE World News has found.

27.03.23

Is Work Working?

‘They treat you like an animal’: How British farms run on exploitation

Migrants on the UK’s rapidly expanding farmworker visa scheme face systematic bullying, abuse and growing debt

A worker on an asparagus farm pushes a barrow

27.05.22

Migrant fruit pickers charged thousands in illegal fees to work on UK farms

Labourers from Nepal say they paid third-party agencies as much as £3,000 to secure six-month job

13.07.21

Is Work Working?

Revealed: Thousands of care jobs pay below living wage despite promises

Many councils have pledged to pay higher rates for home care, but the Bureau has analysed thousands of job adverts and care contracts and found jobs across Britain paid less than the living wage

13.07.21

Is Work Working?

Too stressed to care: ‘We’re paid as terribly as we’re treated’

Caring can be fulfilling work, and it’s an important job, but the stress caught up with me, says Kiri Williams

25.03.21

Is Work Working?

Deliveroo riders can earn as little as £2 an hour during shifts, as boss stands to make £500m

An analysis of hundreds of riders’ invoices shows many riders’ earnings per session falling short of minimum wage levels

18.02.21

Is Work Working?

Amazon’s empty pledge leaves agency workers without shifts and pay

Company policy against zero-hours contracts falls flat with warehouse workers 'treated like disposable labour'

18.02.21

Is Work Working?

Agency work pits “minnow against the whale”

Almost a million people in the UK depend on outsourced agencies for work, and are left with little hope of justice if something goes wrong

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