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The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) [1] is the foremost intelligence and investigative agency for labour exploitation in the UK. Its role is to work in partnership with police and other law enforcement agencies such as the National Crime Agency to protect vulnerable and exploited workers and disrupt and dismantle serious and organised crime.
In addition, the NCA acts as the UK point of contact for foreign law enforcement agencies. It replaced the Serious Organised Crime Agency in 2013. Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) – a Home Office investigative agency for labour exploitation, also working with other agencies on organised crime. [9]
According to section 45(1) of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, [15] prisoners are excluded from the national minimum wage. According to §2.7.2 of Prison Service Order 4460 prisoners are released on temporary facility licence to undertake work for outside employers, they will not qualify for the national minimum wage. [16]
Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX) is a London-based charity working to end human trafficking for labour exploitation. FLEX conducts research, advocacy and awareness-raising in order to prevent labour abuses, protect the rights of trafficked persons and promote best practice responses to human trafficking for labour exploitation.
The surplus value/product is the materialized surplus labour or surplus labour time while the necessary value/product is materialized necessary labour in regard to workers, like the reproduction of the labour power. [6] Marx called the rate of surplus value an "exact expression of the degree of exploitation of labour power by capital". [11]
1 “A person is considered a domestic worker if they work in another person’s home or care for a child; serve as a companion for a sick, convalescing or elderly person; do housekeeping; or perform any other domestic purpose.” N.Y. Labor Law Sec. 2.16 and Human Rights Law (N.Y. Exec Law) Sec 296-b
Returning to the development of factory and workshop law from the year, 1844, the main line of effort—after the act of 1847 had restricted hours of women and young persons to 10 a day and fixed the daily limits between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. (Saturday 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.)—lay in bringing trade after trade in some degree under the scope of this ...
An Act to amend section 8(5) of the Industrial Development Act 1982 [b] and to amend section 1(1) of the Export and Investment Guarantees Act 1991. [ c ] Geneva Conventions and United Nations Personnel (Protocols) Act 2009