Labour plans crackdown on employers exploiting migrants
Labour is to pledge this week that it will make it illegal for employers to cram migrants into mobile homes to cut accommodation costs and undercut domestic workers.
The party will also promise to oversee much tougher enforcement of the national minimum wage – including prosecutions and the doubling of fines – and to extend action against gangmasters employing illegal migrants to the social care, hospitality and construction industries.
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Cooper will argue that the biggest single factor likely to attract low-skilled Romanian and Bulgarian migrants to Britain from next January is the prospect of work. She will claim that the party's "long-thought-out" attempt to tackle the factors that lead to low-skilled migrant labour undercutting domestic workers is in stark contrast to the "panic and kite-flying" by ministers who have long known that the transitional controls preventing Romanians and Bulgarians taking up work in Britain will end this December.
"There must be a level playing field so domestic workers are not disadvantaged and employers shouldn't be allowed to use migration in the wrong way," said a Labour source.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/mar/05/labour-crackdown-employers-exploiting-migrants
Never mind doubling of fines - fines for undercutting minimum wage rates should be made onerous as a deterent.
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