Assessment of the scale and nature of labour market non-compliance in the UK: interim report
An update to the Director of Labour Market Enforcement (DLME) commissioned assessment on the scale and nature of precarious working in the UK.
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Labour market non-compliance covers a broad and varied spectrum of mistreatment of workers. This ranges from accidental and relatively minor infringements to deliberate and extreme harms.
The Director of Labour Market Enforcement (DLME) is required to report annually on the scale and nature of labour market non-compliance, and to produce a strategy to address it. This project will survey precarious workers in such a way as to enable robust inferences and get the best value for money.
With precarious work characterised by low pay, insecurity and uncertainty, such workers are thought to be at particular risk of labour exploitation and work-based harm.
This report sets out:
- the groundwork for the survey sampling and a better understanding of our target population (precarious workers)
- estimates of the number of precarious workers using the Understanding Society Survey
- further methodology improvements and a timeline for the completion of the project