Author: juliamuraszkiewicz

  • Mind the Gap, Mend the Chain: Lessons from Borealis for Belgium and the EU

    How Serious Labour Exploitation Slips Through and What to Do About It By Elise Blanpain, Nov 2025 What happened and why it matters In the summer of 2022, inspections at a Belgian plant of Borealis, a global producer of polyolefin and base chemical solutions, uncovered 174 workers in exploitative conditions. Most were posted or single-permit…

  • The Risk of Exploitation in Adult Social Care

    Contribution by Jeff Norman B.A (Hons), March 2025 Beware the impact of unintended consequences. The relaxation of the immigration rules to fill thousands of vacancies in the social care sector has resulted in a significant increase in the threat of being subjected to modern slavery, with a growing incidence of exploitation. On 24 January 2022,…