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What do remainers think of this!

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Corcory · 08/11/2016 12:57

6 MPs, members of the commons select committee, paid a visit to Sports Direct's warehouse in Derbyshire the other day.
It is build in an ex mining area specifically to provide work for a community badly needing employment opportunities.
When the MPs were shown around the warehouse they had the opportunity to speak to many of the employees there. None of them were British all of them were Eastern European. Some didn't even speak English. So could easily be duped into taking reduced wages and a reduction in their employment rights! No unions are allowed there.
The taxi driver who took the MPs there told them there are never any jobs advertised around here from the warehouse and that people from the area would love jobs there - well provided the paid the proper wages and gave full employment rights!

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MarjorieSimpson · 16/12/2016 21:46

I agree. Protecting workers and ensuring that people do the the MW they are entitled to is a government issue.
It's the government who has agreed on the MW. It's up to the governemnet to also impose the following of the law. It doesn't matter if people are coming from India, Easter countries or Mars. They are working in the uk therefore they have to follow British regulations.
There should be no reason at all for Sports direct and the like to be able to 'stretch' rules or for agencies employing people from Poland to not pay them MW as these people are living and working in the UK.

These can be complex situation (see what is happening with Uber too). But that's what legislation is for.

It would be a shame to just let our arms down, give up in front of major corporations because they have a found a loop hole. And therefore reduce that sort of legislation to nothing.
What we should be doing is help the government accountable for not imposing rules that applies to some companies but not others, some workers but not others and always play against the more vulnerable. The more vulnerable workers (the ones on MW), the more vulnerable companies (the small companies that can't avoid following the rules).
And certainly not letting them get away with murder by saying 'it's not our fault. It's >'

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