Inquiry in to recruitment and employment in the meat and poultry processing sector
Inquiry in to recruitment and employment in the meat and poultry processing sector
The recent report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission 'Inquiry in to recruitment and employment in the meat and poultry processing sector', concluded that that a key source of vulnerability is the insecurity caused by a lack of employment protection and rights.
The Commission now provide supplementary documents that outline their findings in more depth of specific problem areas identified in the report.
These findings show the vulnerability of agency workers to immediate termination of their engagement with no future work being offered as the key factor in their reluctance to complain. This insecurity is caused primarily by their lack of employment protection and rights. The failure of these agency workers to complain prevents much of the abuse coming to light, thus permitting unlawful and unethical treatment to continue.
The report also shows that some agency workers in the study were falsely classified as 'self-employed'. This did not accurately describe their status in reality, as they had none of the independence or autonomy over their work that characterises genuine self-employment.
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