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Home Office ‘robbed’ half a million pounds from migrant workers
THE Home Office has “robbed” immigration detainees of half a million pounds so far this year by paying them as little as £1 an hour to cook and clean, a leading trade unionist has warned.
The low-pay figures were obtained by the Morning Star in a freedom of information request to the Home Office, as part of a campaign to expose sweated labour in detention centres.
The government department paid detainees as little as £1 an hour in January and February.
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