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You and Yours: Wage theft, Tesco lamb, Charity fundraising

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24/03/2016

Wage theft, Tesco lamb, Charity fundraising

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Wage theft, Tesco lamb, Charity fundraising

British lamb, wage theft, charity fundraising, flooded village, and BT Openreach.

The consumer affairs programme looks at British lamb, wage theft, charity fundraising rules, a flooded village, and BT Openreach missed appointments.

The UK lamb market has always been volatile and the cost of production is key to its survival. Tesco have announced they will invite 100 British sheep farmers from across its supply base to take part in a trial of an industry first to help make lamb production more viable for UK sheep farmers

An increasing number of people are not being paid in full for the work they do. The non-payment of wages owed is called wage theft" and frequently happens among lower paid casual workers. In some cases employers deliberately underpay people including taking money from their wages without good reason, often misrepresent people's working hour and pay below national minimum wage. Or not paying wages for a long period of time at all. 

There are calls from the telecoms industry for BT Openreach to publicise how often their engineers miss appointments. We speak to customers who say BT engineers have not turned up on numerous occasions

Starting next month, Cancer Research UK is giving its supporters the chance to 'opt-in' to future fundraising communications. All new supporters will be asked for permission before they are contacted for any further support. And, if people do not opt in they will not receive any more fundraising requests.


Producer: Maire Devine
Editor: Chas Watkin.

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