The one-stop shop will improve enforcement and ensure employees and businesses know where to go for help on workers’ rights, and is part of the government’s Good Work Plan.

Responsibility for tackling modern slavery, enforcing the minimum wage and protecting agency workers – currently spread across three different bodies – will be brought under one roof, creating a comprehensive new authority, which will ensure businesses that break the rules have nowhere to hide.

The government’s plans will see the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate and HMRC’s National Minimum Wage Enforcement combined to create a single enforcement body.

This ‘one-stop shop’ approach will help improve enforcement through better co-ordination and pooling intelligence.

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