Domestic workers employed by wealthy foreigners and diplomats in the UK are being beaten, abused and paid as little as £100 a month, according to a major new report.
Interviews with 33 overseas cleaners, nannies and cooks have revealed a system that is failing to hold abusers to account or help women to escape violent employers — many from oil-rich Gulf states — who brought them legally to Britain, according to Human Rights Watch.
Those who manage to flee generally find they have little legal right to remain in Britain, because of new visa rules introduced in 2012 that ban overseas domestic workers from switching employers.
The domestic workers, all but one of them women, told of working long hours, having their passports confiscated and working for far less than the minimum wage.
Some told of being given only leftovers to eat and of being locked inside and stopped from speaking to their families. Full story...
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