This report looks at Pay (with a focus on Scotland) and transfers (UK wide) from one place of work to another. This work was carried out as part of an exciting collaboration between WSC and the Glasgow Open Justice Centre, involving students at the University of Glasgow in research with supervision from Professor Maria Fletcher and Dr Catriona Cannon.
The report found on:
Pay: there is a concern that workers are working significantly longer hours than they are being paid for.
Transfers: that transfer requests to different farms are being unfairly denied.
Both issues raise genuine risks of labour exploitation, which occurs when an employer takes advantage of a worker’s vulnerability, extracting work under conditions that violate human dignity, legal standards, or contractual agreements.
As part of this collaboration two designs illustrating workers' legal rights were produced by Illustrator Cassandra Harrison, together with workers, one on transfers, and one on pay.
Read the report in full here: