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UK – Transline to face MPs again over use of agency workers

24 March 2017

UK employment agency Transline has been asked to appear before the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee and face questions from MPs regarding the use of agency workers by British companies.

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

According to the Times, Jennifer Hardy, Transline’s financial director, is set to appear before the BEIS and will also update the committee about working conditions at Sports Direct’s Shirebrook warehouse.

Transline was accused by a select committee inquiry of failing to have a “basic understanding of employment and practices” and giving “woefully poor and, in some cases, incorrect evidence” to MPs.

Earlier this year, retailer Amazon cut ties with Transline. Furthermore, in January 2017, two brothers who recruited staff for Transline, which supplied Sports Direct, were convicted and jailed for six years each under the Modern Slavery Act. MPs have also previously urged Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley to cut ties with Transline.