U.K. recruitment agency loses license after workers are found in debt bondage
Banyu (not his real name) lost his job in Bali at the beginning of the pandemic. So, when he heard of an organization recruiting workers for jobs abroad, he jumped at the opportunity. What began with a £550 English course soon turned into a complicated ordeal, trapping him and others in debt bondage of up to £5,000 owed to an unlicensed broker in Bali. “I think about the debt" The brokers initially told Banyu and his friends that the jobs would be
