Vegetable growers for UK shops ‘cheated out of pay’

Britain’s major supermarkets are investigating allegations that workers who grow the salads and winter vegetables they sell are routinely mistreated and cheated out of pay.

Politicians and workers in Spain have claimed in an investigation by Channel 4 News that migrants employed to pick salad for companies whose produce ends up on the shelves of British supermarkets are forced to work weeks on end, cheated out of wages and exposed to pesticides.

The investigation spoke to workers picking vegetables for the Spanish company Agroherni, whose produce is supplied to Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Waitrose and Marks and Spencer.