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Migrant workers suffering “modern slavery” in homes across Britain called on the House of Lords yesterday to take their final chance to set them free.
A handful of brave domestic workers took their fight to Westminster on World Human Rights Day with Unite assistant general secretary Diana Holland.
The women risk deportation for speaking out because the Con-Dems banned them from changing employers by introducing the tied domestic worker visa in 2012.
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
The visa system traps workers with abusive employers, creating a vulnerable workforce scared to complain for fear of deportation — that is why we’re campaigning for a ‘common sponsorship’ model instead, writes FAVOUR DAVIDKING
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP