bogus job agencies
mark | 19.09.2004 16:10
From independent first-hand sources in London( and which reminds me of the cockle-pickers and field workers in Kent and CornwallI ) I keep hearing stories of bogus job agencies employing people as temporary staff fpr employment on private and council jobs. These agencies may pay occasionally - if so, underneath the minimum wage with bogus deductions, but usulaly they move office ( rented office space ) and don't pay the workers at all. They are preying on a marginilised and vulnerable section of our communities. I have heard also of internationals being recommended to these agencies through the job centres!
This is slave labour - shit jobs, shit or no money. All made possible through the arms industry, the oil trade, the diamond trade, Fortress europe and the IMF.
Does anybody out there have more news about these agencies or experiences. Please post.
This is slave labour - shit jobs, shit or no money. All made possible through the arms industry, the oil trade, the diamond trade, Fortress europe and the IMF.
Does anybody out there have more news about these agencies or experiences. Please post.
mark
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good point
21.09.2004 08:55
More observations anyone?
Jake
find them
21.09.2004 11:40
karen eliot
TUC investigation
21.09.2004 17:39
The april 2004 article is here.
This is happening all over Europe.
See also No Sweat's website
There are films and workshops on No Borders and Precarity at the Beyond ESF event on 13th -17th October at Middlesex University, Tottenham.
More resources at
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