Connect workers with sources of employment support, training, information and advice to enable them to access different types of work.Improve access to local educational services for workers and their families, particularly related to further education, and language support for younger children.This support should cover immigration, housing and welfare rights in addition to workplace rights. Connect workers with sources of community-based legal advice and support, available in a range of community languages.This should engage with existing trades union initiatives but should also explore additional options for representation of worker voices, drawing on the experience of organisations that have experience in representing migrant workers. Establish trusted support to advocate for workplace rights.Ensure that successful outcomes are communicated to raise levels of confidence. Provide a single ‘front door’ contact point for workers wishing to make a complaint to enforcement agencies and offer ongoing support and case management for those who raise issues.Improve worker access to English language provision, both at work and in community settings, with greater flexibility to enable all workers to attend.The experts have recommended priority areas for major retailers and government agencies to focus on to improve workers’ lives and working conditions – these include: The researchers have published their findings, along with their recommendations for intervention, in a new report which will inform the Trust’s priorities for the coming year. A study into the lives and working conditions of Leicester garment workers has identified nine key areas that the sector can improve upon.Įxperts from the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab and De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) were commissioned by the Garment & Textile Workers Trust (G&TWT) to gather insight directly from those who work in the garment industry to inform the purpose and scope of the Trust, which was formed earlier this year.

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