Tesco and Sainsbury’s among supermarkets linked to migrant worker abuse

Tesco and Sainsbury’s have been named among a number of supermarket giants which have been linked to multiple migrant worker abuses within the UK.

New data from the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) revealed that 56% of recorded abuse against migrant workers in the UK occurred on grocers’ shop floors, and within the associated agriculture, fishing, processing and packaging businesses.

“Supermarkets must realise it’s simply not enough to publish general labour rights policies,” said BHRRC senior migrant rights researcher Isobel Archer.

“It is high time businesses recognise the consequence of their inaction and lack of safeguards – and they must believe workers.”

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