UK faces legal action for approving firm accused of using forced labour as PPE supplier
High court to review government’s decision to include subsidiary of Malaysia’s Supermax in £6bn ‘framework’ deal for buying gloves
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High court to review government’s decision to include subsidiary of Malaysia’s Supermax in £6bn ‘framework’ deal for buying gloves
When construction began to great fanfare in 2019, the Linglong tire factory outside of Belgrade was heralded as the jewel in the crown of Serbia’s burgeoning strategic partnership with China. Two years later, 500 Vietnamese construction workers were allegedly found last month working in conditions of forced labor with their passports confiscated, and living in cramped and degrading conditions. The case has shocked Serbians, with the European parliament demanding answers as to how a major case of human trafficking could have apparently been allowed to fester in the heart of Europe. Yet Linglo...
Observer investigation uncovers new trafficking gateway to the west after 500 migrants found in shocking conditions in Serbia
The government is facing legal action over links between personal protective equipment and alleged modern slavery. A case is mounting against the government’s failure to address labour abuses in the NHS supply chain, The Independent understands, despite repeated promises made by the Home Office and Department of Health and Social Care to crack down. Wilson Solicitors, a London firm, has written to the DHSC raising concerns over how gloves made...