In The Press

Toufique Hossain, Public Law and Immigration Director, has commented on the treatment of immigration detainees being paid £1 an hour for work done inside immigration detention centres as indicative of slavery. The work consists of a range of in-house services that would require external agencies or individual skilled workers to fill the roles were detainees not providing the services themselves. Toufique comments in The Times article: “They are working as cleaners, barbers, laundry workers, litter-pickers and food servers. This work would otherwise need to be done by workers paid at least the minimum wage. If this isn’t slavery, I don’t know what is.”