The final independent report of Director of Labour Market Enforcement (DLME) commissioned assessment on the scale and nature of labour non-compliance and other work-based harms in the UK has been published with some shocking results.

The report was to question:

• How many workers have their rights breached in the UK labour market?

• What issues do they experience most often, and is there an overlap between them?
• How are they affected by each of these issues?
• Who is at higher or lower risk?
• Are there any differences between workers in more precarious positions and the full workforce?

The research result offers a targeted snapshot into working conditions, focusing on the period between spring/summer 2023 and spring/summer 2025.

• National Minimum Wage (NMW)
• Workers not receiving a required payslip regularly or at all (when eligible)
• New employments not receiving a contract or Key Information Document (KID) ahead of starting a job or within the time period stipulated by the law (this applies to those who started a new job in the last 2 years)
• Agency workers being charged work-finding fees by agencies

The results show that around 5.4 million workers are having these basic employment rights breached.

Additionally the report highlights further employment right concerns affecting over 26.6 million of those working.

The results show that 7 in 10 workers experienced at least 1 of these further 8 main focus issues, which together cover a range of legal violations, potential legal...

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