Employers fail to comply with employment rights
Of the 165 inspections it carried out of retail, grocery and allied trade employers in the first nine months of this year, just 17% were compliant with the wage rates and employment law requirements for the sector. The figure compared to 23% for the same period for 2009.
It was a similar story in agriculture where compliance fell from 60% in January-September 2009 to 27% in the first nine months of this year.
