The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) has announced plans to introduce a ‘more effective compliance strategy’ following a public consultation that took place at the start of 2021.
In a recent press release, the GLAA confirmed that the key changes will include;
- A commitment to conduct more compliance activity and specifically, to inspect every licence-holder over a five-year rolling period
- The majority of application inspections to be carried out virtually
- Providing more help and advice for licence-holders and training to build compliance
- Exploring news ways to get feedback from workers using technology
- Conducting more compliance activity using different approaches such as awareness visits, informal resolution of issues, thematic reviews, unannounced spot checks, days of action etc
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