Additional reporting by Zak Garner-Purkis
An investigation by ITV News and the Observer has uncovered evidence of serious flaws in the way a network of hotels and accommodation blocks are run to house asylum seekers.
Whistle-blowers have told us how some staff running them are paid below the minimum wage, rostered to work 6 days a week for 12 hours a day, far in excess of the 48-hour weekly limit, and work in breach of their student visas.
Some 9,500 asylum seekers are accommodated in re-purposed hotels and apartment blocks, sometimes waiting years for their claims to be processed.
The Home Office pays private companies like Clearsprings Ready Homes to help manage these. Clearsprings in turn subcontracts another firm, Stay Belvedere Hotels Ltd to help run some of them.
Nope, it just makes them worse
Lindsay Clark Tue 15 Dec 2020 // 18:07 UTC Share
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RoTM AI and automation in the workplace risk creating new forms of bias and unfairness, worsening inequalities in the world of work, according to a UK think tank report published today.
The result of two years of research, the Fabian Society paper Sharing the future: workers and technology in the 2020s said that automating technologies creates heightened risks for historically disadvantaged groups.
Among other evidence, it cited machine-learning algorithms that inform recruitment decisions based on outdated and discriminatory data. Algorithms and AI are being used to make life-changing decisions about recruitment and progression in the workplace, replicating the kinds of biases that plague human decision-making, the authors said.