Migrant Workers Exploited As A Result Of UK's Employer Sponsorship Scheme

 

According to a recent analysis by the Work Rights Centre, thousands of migrant workers in the United Kingdom (UK) have been exploited as a result of numerous shortcomings in the government’s employer sponsorship program.

To draw attention to the predicament of migrant workers in the UK, the Work Rights Centre, an organization that supports migrants, released a paper titled “Systematic Drivers of Migrant Worker Exploitation in the UK.”

As per the research, migrant workers who arrived in the UK are susceptible to exploitation due to shortcomings in the employer sponsorship program of the Home Office.

The Work Rights Centre examined forty instances of potentially exploited migrant laborers. “Migrant worker exploitation is not coincidental; rather, it is the result of a system, an inadequate and increasingly hostile national policy environment,” the report stated.

An agent conned a few migrant laborers. To obtain visas and an employer sponsor to enter the UK, they paid agents tens of thousands of pounds. Their positions were not guaranteed when they arrived in the UK, and they were afraid to denounce the employer to UK authorities in case the employer’s sponsorship registration was revoked by the British government’s ministerial office, the Home Office.