UK: Migrant care workers left "stranded & in limbo" after experiencing exploitation by companies who have licenses removed by Govt.
Resumo
Data informada: 28 Abr 2025
Localização: Reino Unido
Outros
Not Reported ( Assistência Médica ) - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 1
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 1 - Localização desconhecida , Assistência Médica , Men , Unknown migration status )Temas
Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , Saúde Mental , Roubo de salários , Substituição de contratos , Trabalho IrregularResposta
Response sought: Não
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
Resumo
Data informada: 28 Abr 2025
Localização: Reino Unido
Outros
Not Reported ( Assistência Médica ) - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 1
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 1 - Bangladesh , Assistência Médica , Men , Unknown migration status )Temas
Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Benefício Negado , Access to Non-Judicial RemedyResposta
Response sought: Não
Medidas tomadas: He told the BBC he had contacted the police and the Home Office but had not received a response.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
“Migrant workers 'in limbo' over employer licence crackdown”
Jamil, a migrant worker from Bangladesh, says he has been left stranded and in limbo after being exploited and then abandoned by a company who recruited him to help fulfil the UK's shortage of care workers.
Following a crackdown from the government, the company he had been working for lost its licence to employ foreign workers.
Now the 30-year-old does not know what to do.
He's not alone - figures obtained to the BBC under the Freedom of Information Act show the number of times a company had its sponsor licence revoked in the UK rose from 336 in 2023 to 1,514 in 2024 - a rise of 350%. Over a third were in London.
The effect has meant migrant workers have been "pushed into destitution", the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants told the BBC, adding that it had seen a huge increase in people seeking their services…
Jamil - not his real name - was approached by the company, which the BBC is not naming, after he completed a business masters degree in the UK…
More than 39,000 workers, external in the care sector have been affected by sponsorship licences being revoked since October 2020…