Crime leader who recruited illegal workers to clean at Sainsbury’s jailed
要約
Date Reported: 2023年8月8日
場所: イギリス
企業
Exclusive Contract Services Limited - Employer , Sainsbury's - Other Value Chain Entity関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - アフリカ , クリーニング及びメンテナンス , Gender not reported , Undocumented migrants )課題
強制労働と現代の奴隷制 , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Wage Theft , 人身売買 , プライバシー回答
Response sought: Yes, by The Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
取られた措置: ECS and Sainsbury's provided responses after the Resource Centre's outreach but did not address specific questions asked around remedy, due diligence and monitoring conditions for subcontracted workers. The area manager was jailed for six years.
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要約
Date Reported: 2023年8月8日
場所: イギリス
企業
Sainsbury's - Other Value Chain Entity , ISS - Employer関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - アフリカ , クリーニング及びメンテナンス , Gender not reported , Undocumented migrants )課題
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Wage Theft , 人身売買 , 強制労働と現代の奴隷制回答
Response sought: Yes, by The Resource Centre
Story containing response: (Find out more)
取られた措置: ISS and Sainsbury's provided responses after the Resource Centre's outreach but did not address specific questions asked around remedy, due diligence and monitoring conditions for subcontracted workers. The area manager was jailed for six years.
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Members of a criminal gang which recruited illegal migrants to work as cleaners across a string of Sainsbury’s supermarkets in Oxfordshire and the south-west have been sentenced...
[Momodou Chune] worked for 2 cleaning companies responsible for providing contracts for cleaners in 9 Sainsbury’s stores in Oxfordshire and Wiltshire..
It is estimated that over a decade of activity, the gang profited in the region of £600,000 from wages of illegal workers and ‘ghost’ workers. The majority of the illegal workers had more than one name and identity, as Chune created fake employees in order to obtain more money in false wages from his employers...
Investigators found that, from 2006 to 2016, Chune had abused his position as an area manager for 2 companies ISS Facility Services (ISS) and Exclusive Contract Services (ECS), to employ illegal migrants to work as cleaning staff at 9 Sainsbury’s stores in Oxfordshire and Wiltshire.
Chune recruited each of the illegal workers knowing they had no right to work. Evidence showed he had control over what the workers were paid as he had their wages paid into his accounts and the accounts of those close to him.
He also controlled where some of the illegal workers lived by providing them with rooms across his multi-million-pound property portfolio. The court heard Chune would pay illegal workers in cash but would deduct rent from those he housed...