To commemorate International Domestic Workers’ Day, Dolores Modern from the Latin American Women’s Rights Service (LAWRS), writes for FLEX about the experiences of Latin American migrant domestic workers in the UK, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on these workers and what needs to change so they are better protected from labour abuse and exploitation.

What's happening to farm labour in the light of Brexit and COVID-19? And what might this mean for exploitation? This blog builds on FLEX previous work on the 'seasonal workers pilot' by exploring these questions and calling on government to ensure meaningful scrutiny of labour conditions in UK agriculture. 

FLEX publishes a new briefing examining the impact of the pandemic on labour exploitation. It finds it will raise the risk of exploitation for specific categories of workers who were already made more vulnerable to abuse by migration and social protection policies. FLEX provides clear recommendations to protect these workers and ensure modern slavery offences do not rise as a result of the virus.

Today, FLEX publishes a new report, Worker-Driven Social Responsibility: Exploring a New Model for Tackling Labour Abuse in Supply Chains. The report explores ‘worker-driven social responsibility’ (WSR) as a tool for ensuring decent work for outsourced, subcontracted and offshored workers and questions how it might work in different contexts.