To use the 'Polish' car wash?

[LennyCrabsticks]

I went there today and paid £15 for half a dozen Eastern European people to clean my car inside and out including all the upholstery and nitty gritty bits, the whole thing took less than twenty minutes.

It just seems a bit, I don't know, exploitative? They are there seven days a week in all weathers, dozens of them, all migrant workers.

Is there something dodgy about the set up? I'll avoid it if it's shady (I'm thinking of forced labour etc). Or is it an enterprise worth supporting with my custom?

Does anyone know?

(I do hope I'm overthinking this as my car is lovely and clean and it was v cheap...)

I though education was compulsory to 18 in the UK now?

Anyway, the car wash near me is run and staff by Polish guys. I know because I got chatting to a woman at a toddler group whose husband ran the place. She was saying how hard he worked but then if you're running a car wash that's open 7 days a week and an international crime syndicate you do have quite a lot on your plate.

tbh yes the car wash could well be exploitative if it is like the one here where the boss charges more for the accommodation in a crappy old caravan than is possible to earn. There were a few Poles there but they moved on after I dobbed him in to the Slavery Hotline. Mind you they have been replaced by a crowd of others, not Polish but different nationalities.
Poland is in Central Europe by the way.

I though education was compulsory to 18 in the UK now?

England
In England, your leaving age depends on when you were born. You can leave school on the last Friday in June as long as you’ll be 16 by the end of that year’s summer holidays.

You must stay in some form of education or training until your 18th birthday if you were born on or after 1 September 1997.

Your options are:

full-time education - eg at a school or college
an apprenticeship or traineeship
part-time education or training - as well as being employed, self-employed or volunteering for 20 hours or more a week
Scotland

In Scotland, if you turn 16 between 1 March and 30 September you can leave school after 31 May of that year.

If you turn 16 between 1 October and the end of February you can leave at the start of the Christmas holidays in that school year.

Wales
In Wales, you can leave school on the last Friday in June, as long as you’ll be 16 by the end of that school year’s summer holidays.

Northern Ireland
In Northern Ireland, if you turn 16 during the school year (between 1 September and 1 July) you can leave school after 30 June.

If you turn 16 between 2 July and 31 August you can’t leave school until 30 June the following year.