0 someone who employs a large number of workers, often illegally and for very little money:
The Home Secretary has promised that the gangmasters responsible for immigration crime would be ruthlessly targeted.
It was urged that licensing of gangmasters should be reintroduced.
A range of legislation regulates the employment of workers by gangmasters.
Some legitimate gangmasters who run small operations would find that sum exorbitant, and they would therefore not register, thus rendering their operations illegitimate.
The problems caused by some gangmasters have long been known, but the nature of gangmasters has changed.
The same is true of so-called gangmasters, who hire labour for general agricultural work such as planting, picking and packing agricultural produce.
Gangmasters are generally treated as employers for national insurance purposes and are subject to the same requirements for these purposes as all other employers.
The rogue gangmasters undercut legitimate gangmasters and exploit workers, both migrant and indigenous.
It certainly adds great weight to the case for licensing gangmasters.
