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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Shanti Das

Revealed: UK fast fashion staff deprived of pay by jobs agency

A warehouse worker pushes a hand truck.
‘It was really stressful to go through all that just to be paid the money I was rightfully owed,’ said a worker at a Sheffield warehouse. Photograph: Getty Images

A jobs agency that supplies warehouse workers to fast fashion and high street brands repeatedly underpaid staff and deprived them of holiday pay, an Observer investigation has found.

Workers hired on zero-hours contracts to help process orders for PrettyLittleThing, its parent company Boohoo, The Very Group, Sainsbury’s and Currys are among those who claim to have had wages withheld by Mach Recruitment.

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