Trade Unions

(asked on 11th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to Table 4 in the Director of Labour Market Enforcement’s 2018-19 Strategy, published on 9 May 2018, what criteria were used to compile the non-exhaustive list of trades unions.


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Andrew Griffiths
This question was answered on 19th June 2018

Table 4 lists some of the key stakeholders that the Director of Labour Market Enforcement consulted to gather evidence for his Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2018-19. This is not an exhaustive list but illustrates the breadth of stakeholders connected to labour market enforcement, including those trade unions with whom the Director had most engagement in developing his 2018/19 Strategy.

A full list of stakeholders who responded to the consultation, including trade unions, is located at the Strategy’s Annex C.

In the 2016 Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), 34,700 jobs in the Transportation and Storage sector were paid at or below the National Minimum Wage (NMW). However, it is not possible to further break down this figure for individual sectors within the transport industry.

The Government will publish new evidence to the Low Pay Commission containing ASHE 2017 estimates of jobs below minimum wage rates and enforcement statistics for 2017/18 later this year.

The Director has built strong relationships with a range of organisations since his office was established in January 2017. The Government is supportive of the work the Information Hub has taken to promote greater information sharing amongst stakeholders and increase its knowledge of labour exploitation in the UK labour market.

There have been no specific discussions at Cabinet-level on the contribution of regulatory bodies in the transport and offshore energy industries to the DLME’s Information Hub.

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