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Explaining the Conservative government’s decision to appoint a director of labour market enforcement, James Brokenshire, the UK’s immigration minister, declared: “Exploiting or coercing people into work is not acceptable. It is not right that unscrupulous employers can force people to work or live in very poor conditions, withhold wages or mislead them into coming to the UK for work”. Who could possibly disagree? What could possibly be wrong with the government’s determination to “provide a coherent enforcement strategy to crack down on serious exploitation of workers by appointing a new director who will oversee the relevant enforcement agencies”?
The government is bent on blaming undocumented migrant workers for the low pay and poor working conditions that too many employees in the UK endure.
