The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate (EAS) has recovered more than twice the amount of pay for workers in 2008/09 (£63,341) than it did in the previous year (£26,000), according to the latest Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate (EAS) Annual Report.

The report also shows that since April EAS have won back over £150,000 in unpaid wages for agency workers.

The agency has benefitted from a doubling in the number of its inspectors, a £1.2m campaign to raise awareness of employment rights among vulnerable agency workers and new powers giving it  access through the courts to unlimited fines for certain offences.