‘One hell to another’: Thousands of care workers risk deportation after employers breach rules
摘要
日期: 2024年5月11日
地點: 英國
企業
24/7 Flex Care - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 2
移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 印度 , 醫療保健 , Men , Documented migrants ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 印度 , 醫療保健 , Women , Documented migrants )議題
Contract Substitution , 招聘費用 , 任意拘留 , 恐嚇和威脅 , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Access to Justice & Legal Protection回應
已邀請回應：是，由Journalist
後續行動: Flex Care did not respond to The Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s request for comment.
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2024年5月11日
地點: 英國
企業
S&K Care 24 - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 1
移民和移民工人: ( 1 - 奈及利亞 , 醫療保健 , Women , Documented migrants )議題
Contract Substitution , 任意拘留回應
已邀請回應：是，由Journalist
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後續行動: Kay Mayo, registered manager of S&K Care 24, admitted to TBIJ that no care worker sponsored by her company had been given any work because it had not managed to secure care provision contracts with local authorities. As a result of this, and because the company was acting as a recruitment agency, the Home Office subsequently revoked its sponsor licence, she said. She denied the office had been empty, and said she had been asked by the landlord to leave.
資訊來源: News outlet
… when they arrived in the UK, they say they were given no accommodation, no money for their flights and no work. The only money either of them ever received from 24/7 Flex Care was £500, paid to Ismail after he went to the offices to complain…
… they both received letters from the Home Office saying the company had lost its licence to sponsor overseas care workers – and as a result they have until mid-June to secure a new visa or else return to India….
Data obtained via freedom of information requests shows that 122 companies had their licences revoked in 2022 and 2023. This resulted in nearly 3,000 care workers having their sponsorship cancelled, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) and the Observer can reveal…
An employer’s licence is revoked because the company has broken the rules. But consequences fall on the workers…
… Katherine was not given the work she had been promised by the company sponsoring her, S&K Care 24….
Kay Mayo, registered manager of S&K Care 24, admitted to TBIJ that no care worker sponsored by her company had been given any work because it had not managed to secure care provision contracts with local authorities.
24/7 Flex Care did not respond to several requests for comment…