UK: Kenyan Merit Healthcare worker allegedly earned 'hundreds' less than expected & was dismissed after raising complaints, incl. co. comments
摘要
日期: 2023年9月3日
地点: 英国
企业
Merit Healthcare Ltd - Employer其他
Not Reported ( 职业介绍所 ) - Recruiter受影响的
受影响的总人数: 数字未知
外劳和移民工人: ( 1 - 肯尼亚 , 医疗保健 , Gender not reported )议题
招聘费 , Contract Substitution , Poverty Wages , Dismissal , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , 剥夺言论自由 , Restricted mobility回应
已邀请回应:是,由The Guardian
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后续行动: The company denies wrongdoing and disputes the worker's account. The company told the Observer it had fired Mbare for “legal and valid reasons” but could not supply further details due to data protection rules.
信息来源: News outlet
“Sent home: how Kenyan’s dream of life as a UK care worker turned sour”
…[Kenyan care worker Mbare] … paid £2,500 in “admin” fees to a domiciliary agency which, he claims, promised him a full-time, minimum-wage job…
…he was forced to return …“£10,000 in debt” and with no job…He claims his employer fired him and terminated his visa sponsorship after he raised concerns about working conditions. It then failed to provide him with a reference, he says, thwarting his chances of finding another care sector sponsor – and leaving him unable to remain in the UK…
…he was told by his sponsor, Merit Healthcare, that he would work 40 hours a week for £10.20 per hour…
…Mbare made … hundreds less than he was expecting…
…care workers who paid agencies up to £8,000 for jobs in the UK…
Mbare’s story also raises questions about checks performed on companies granted sponsor licences…
The Home Office declined to answer questions about Mbare’s case, but said it “strongly condemned” any companies that hired migrant workers “under false pretences”…
Merit Healthcare Ltd…said it followed Home Office rules and denied any wrongdoing….
The company denied its vehicle policies were unfair…
A spokesperson for Merit said … the “real” issue was government underfunding of social care…