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The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) [3] 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.
The Gangmasters Licensing Act was based on a voluntary project, the UK Temporary Labour Working Group , carried out by companies in conjunction with trade unions through the Ethical Trading Initiative. The project provided a working model for how a licensing scheme could work, and also meant that ETI-member companies, including major UK ...
Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority - Human trafficking, slavery, economic, and serious organised crime. United States Office of the Director of National ...
Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) – a Home Office investigative agency for labour exploitation, also working with other agencies on organised crime. [9] GLAA officers have powers under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 akin to those of in police contables in relation to their narrow remit. [10]
Jeremy Slack, chair of the department of sociology and anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso, has surveyed migrants about their experience with federal immigration enforcement agents ...
During the investigation and trial, it emerged that the labourers were inexperienced, spoke little or no English and were unfamiliar with the area. The Chinese gangmaster who organised the trip and two associates of his were found guilty of manslaughter, of breaking immigration laws and other crimes, and were sentenced to several years in prison.
In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe. Guards accused the teen of faking it and forced him to do pushups in his own vomit, according to Texas law enforcement reports ...
A Texas megachurch in the Dallas suburbs has removed several elders after launching an investigation into abuse allegations against Robert Morris, the church’s founder and former advisor to ...