Should gangmaster protection be extended to construction?

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Safeguards to prevent migrant workers from being exploited should be extended to the construction industry, a Labour MP has said. Geraldine Smith, who represents the constituency where 23 Chinese cocklepickers died last year, called for anti-gangmaster legislation to be expanded after an exposé of the increasing use and abuse of temporary labour in fields beyond agriculture.

The call was echoed by the head of the Labour trade union group of MPs, Tony Lloyd. Ms Smith, who campaigned for a pr... (71 more words)

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