Industry hit by underworld
13 September 2012
The recruitment industry is being targeted by gangs trying to supply them with illegal immigrant workers. Richard Staines examines the problems with the system and asks what agencies _ and the government _ can do to combat it
Slavery may have been abolished in most parts of the Western world in the nineteenth century. But a new form of slavery is now sneaking up on our doorsteps.
This is the so-called human trafficking, where illegal immigrants are smuggled into the country and forced to work for next to nothing by gangmasters. And now recruitment companies are on their hit...