"Nepali recruitment agency loses GLAA license,"

Adept and Agile, a Nepali recruitment agency, has lost its Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) licence after investigations revealed that workers were charged exorbitant job-finding fees before arriving in the UK, GLAA said in a statement on Monday.

“GLAA officers have revoked the licence of Adept and Agile with immediate effect,” the statement reads. “This means that the business will no longer be able to supply workers into GLAA-regulated sectors of agriculture, horticulture, shellfish gathering, and any associated processing or packaging.”

The authority, which licences gangmasters, companies that supply labour, in such sectors, had suspended Adept and Agile’s licence earlier in January after a UK court handed a Slavery and Trafficking Risk Order to its two directors on suspicion of exploiting workers by charging exorbitant recruitment fees...

Several workers also told the GLAA that they were instructed not to tell anyone about the fee they paid, otherwise they would be sent back home to Nepal.