A migrant fruit picker filed an employment tribunal claim against EU Plants, alleging she was underpaid, worked six hour days up to 8.5 hours per day and that she was forced to buy her own personal protective equipment. She and colleagues ran out of money and could not buy food. Her lawyers also argue she faced indirect indiscrimination owing to her status on a six-month visa meaning it was harder to uphold her rights compared with people of a more secure immigration status. In her witness statement in May 2024, the worker said her hands bled because she was not given gloves and was forced to live in an unheated caravan in winter 2022 with five men at a farm near Reading in Southern England. An earlier article from April 2023 said six other workers at EU Plants, one of the UK’s largest producers of strawberry and raspberry plants, also said they had been underpaid. They said their payslips did not correctly reflect the hours they had worked. When workers tried to check how their hours were being recorded by the field supervisor, they were yelled at, four of them said. The workers raised the issues with the farm but their complaints were dismissed. She struggled to meet basic living costs. She then emailed her visa sponsor and recruiter, AG Recruitment, in January to explain that she had been underpaid. Following her complaint, AG Recruitment transferred her to another farm, but she said she was not compensated for the money she was owed.