Amazon has cut ties with UK employment agency Transline as they will no longer be supplying temporary warehousing staff to the world’s largest online retailer.

The employment agency, a member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), was at the centre of a scandal and investigation involving Sports Direct.

Transline workers who are employed in five of Amazon’s 12 UK warehouses are to be transferred to two rival employment agencies, understood to be Adecco and PMP, over the coming days and weeks, according to the Guardian. Transline workers from Amazon sites in Doncaster, Peterborough Swansea and Dunfermline will be affected by the decision.

Amazon severed its collaboration with Transline following a routine review.

A spokesman for Amazon commented, “We do not comment on our relationships with suppliers.” However, the decision to replace Transline was confirmed by an anonymous insider, who said that the agency had been discarded as part of a routine review.

Earlier this year, two brothers who recruited staff for Transline, which supplied Sports Direct, were convicted and jailed for six years each under the Modern Slavery Act.

Transline is still supplying Sports Direct. 

Commenting exclusively to Staffing Industry Analysts, the company said, “There have been changes to Amazon’s overall supply network, which is not unusual within the industry. We are still in partnership together and Transline remains a committed supplier.”