Agencies warned over employment rights breaches

The Government has reprimanded 18 employment agencies supplying drivers to businesses in the West Midlands for failing to comply with the law.

The warnings follow intelligence-led investigations by the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate, in collaboration with the Gangmasters Licensing Authority. Investigators found that 18 agencies in the area broke the law a total of 80 times between them.

These offences included:

failing to confirm the identity of drivers;not checking healt... (140 more words)

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