There is condemnation (and rightly so) of companies that use unpaid interns, work them to death, and then throw them away without offering a permanent position.
There is condemnation (most certainly righteous condemnation) of companies that take JSA (Job Seekers Allowance) labour and use these people as a sort of updated version of indentured servants - unable to leave (without penalties) and yet paid nothing extra for their "work experience".
Can we please have some investigation and intervention into "subsistence retailing" corner shops (often in BME areas, but not exclusively so) where young children are compelled by family authority figures into working long hours often for a pittance.
And not just corner shops.
In Greetings From Bury Park Sarfraz Manzoor describes how his two sisters worked excessively long hours for effectively no payment (the money was taken by the father). He was writing about Luton in the 1970s and 80s. Has this culture of family exploitation passed, or are children in these environments still being exploited?
Is anyone looking into this, or is political correctness inhibiting investigation into BME girls (it is usually girls) who are having their childhood stolen from them?
There is condemnation (most certainly righteous condemnation) of companies that take JSA (Job Seekers Allowance) labour and use these people as a sort of updated version of indentured servants - unable to leave (without penalties) and yet paid nothing extra for their "work experience".
Can we please have some investigation and intervention into "subsistence retailing" corner shops (often in BME areas, but not exclusively so) where young children are compelled by family authority figures into working long hours often for a pittance.
And not just corner shops.
In Greetings From Bury Park Sarfraz Manzoor describes how his two sisters worked excessively long hours for effectively no payment (the money was taken by the father). He was writing about Luton in the 1970s and 80s. Has this culture of family exploitation passed, or are children in these environments still being exploited?
Is anyone looking into this, or is political correctness inhibiting investigation into BME girls (it is usually girls) who are having their childhood stolen from them?
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