Work Rights Centre is a charity that helps migrants and disadvantaged Britons access employment justice and improve their social mobility

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Policy 8 Sept 2026

Modern slavery victims on the Skilled Worker visa to receive ‘game-changing’ relief

The recent Statement of Changes amends the Immigration Rules, allowing Skilled Workers who have been referred into the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) and received a Positive Conclusive Grounds (CG) decision the right to work without prior restrictions.

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Data 27 Aug 2026

Home Office revokes record number of sponsor licences

Latest migration transparency data shows a record number of sponsor licences were revoked, with a focus on care, services, hospitality, and construction. But the absence of fines and worker safeguards limit the impact of this action.

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Policy 5 Aug 2026

An urgent plea from our CEO to Andy Burnham: don’t turn your back on migrant carers

Is the new Prime Minister throwing migrant workers to the dogs to appease Reform-sympathising voters? That might buy him some time with sections of the media, but it won't fix the social care sector. 

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Our impact in 2025

£173K

Recovered for people exploited by their employers

481

People supported to understand and secure their immigration status

184

Frontline professionals trained in immigration and employment advice

415

People supported with one-on-one employment legal advice


Write to your MP

The government has no clue what it's like to be a migrant or low-paid worker in Britain today.

Yet they are making policies such as doubling the route to settlement and changing the immigration rules that will affect millions of people's lives.

We need to tell them.

Starmer