The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has given its support to Paul Whitehouse and Michael Wilson, who have been appointed as Chairman and Chief Executive respectively of the new ...

A regulator has called for powers to clamp down on the growing exploitation of migrant labourers in the care sector. A regulator has called for powers to clamp down on the growing exploitation of ...

Gangmasters who exploit migrant workers could be moving into the social care sector to evade licensing regimes covering farming and food-related industries, union chiefs say. The TUC said anecdotal ...

UK specialist recruitment company Omega Resource Group - acknowledged industry-wide as an exemplar of best practice for the welfare of labour - has been awarded its Gangmasters licence. Omega was ...

The Gangmasters’ Licensing Authority has achieved its first prosecution of a gangmaster in the shellfish industry. Four workers had to be rescued by Morecambe Bay lifeboats in September 2007 after ...