Risky business: Tackling Exploitation in the UK labour market
"Risky Business: Tackling Exploitation in the UK Labour Market," October 2017
This report sets out Focus on Labour Exploitation’s (FLEX) action plan for a UK response to exploitation in the labour market... Under both the United Nations Human Trafficking Protocol, and the ILO Forced Labour Protocol, the UK government has an obligation to prevent the exploitation of workers through abuse of their vulnerability...
It is in this context that FLEX welcomes the role of the UK Director of Labour Market Enforcement (DLME). FLEX aims to ensure that the DLME establishes an evidence-based picture of risk in the UK labour market and devises worker and victim centred solutions to such risk to detect and prevent labour exploitation. To this end this report highlights examples of international best practice in the prevention of labour exploitation in comparable country contexts and highlights some of the obstacles to effective responses...