UK: EU Plants faces landmark employment claim brought by migrant on seasonal scheme over claims of wage theft, six-day weeks & lack of protective equipment
摘要
日期: 2023年12月3日
地點: 英國
企業
EU Plants - Employer , AG Recruitment - Recruiter受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 尼泊爾 , 農業和畜牧 , Women , Documented migrants )議題
招聘費用 , Poverty Wages , Wage Theft , Occupational Health & Safety , 歧視/多元文化:綜合 , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , 食物權 , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , 恐嚇和威脅 , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy回應
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後續行動: The company denied the claim brought by the worker, though it did admit it had failed to pay GBP192 in holiday pay which is had already rectified. EU Plants now faces a landmark legal claim brought by the worker. Ag Recruitment said to TBIJ that it would report issues to the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse but would not say if a report was made on the Nepali worker’s case.
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"Migrant fruit picker who 'struggled to buy food after being underpaid by British farm' sues employers,"
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Sapana Pangeni, 31, from Nepal, says she was owed nearly £1,500 from two months working at a farm in Berkshire. She came to the UK under the government’s visa scheme for the agriculture sector and is the first person on a seasonal worker visa to take legal action against a farm.
Ms Pangeni worked at EU Plants Ltd...
She claims she worked six days a week for up to eight and a half hours each day. Before the tribunal proceedings started she said that she and some of her colleagues ran out of money within a few weeks of arriving in the UK. She said A friend gave her £60 for groceries, which she then shared with other Nepali workers at the farm who were also too broke to buy food...
Following her complaint, the recruiter transferred Ms Pangeni to another farm, but she said she was not compensated for the money she was owed.
Besides not being paid all her wages, she says she was not given a contract, had to provide her own personal protective equipment, and faced indirect discrimination, according to her legal filings.
Her lawyers are arguing that she suffered indirect discrimination as a result of the fact that she was on a six-month visa and so found it harder to uphold her rights compared to people with a more secure immigration status, either through a union or the legal system...
EU Plants Ltd “strongly deny” the claim bought by Ms Pangeni and intend to strongly defend the claim...