She soon came across a cleaning company called Golden Hands Cleaning, which was advertising jobs on the social media site Telegram
Red flag
She never met anyone from Golden Hands Cleaning in person
Red flag
But at the end of her first month, Lesia was not paid. She raised this with the company, which told her it was experiencing some financial problems but assured her that she would be paid soon
So, a scam. And as she didn’t speak English, going to assume it was in Ukrainian…and as we in the UK prefer learning software languages to human ones, I doubt it was a Brit who scammed her.
Another Maria came to the UK with her mother in March 2022. She spent the first few months completing her studies, which had been abruptly disrupted by the outbreak of war. In July, she got a job as a receptionist at a boutique beauty salon in London.
She worked there for two weeks before receiving a call from her manager to say that her contract would be terminated immediately. Maria spent the next two months fighting for the pay that she was owed for her work. The salon wouldn’t respond to her messages, so she had to involve the Jobcentre and Acas in the dispute.
Illegal, hope she got paid after Acas’ got involved as they do actually have rights. UK did have to unfortunately re-enact the gangmasters law after joining the EC, but there’s plenty of other legislation that the Tories haven’t managed to get rid of
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