Undercover footage obtained by BBCSpotlightNI indicates that young workers for a door-to-door sales company in Belfast are being exploited, a barrister has said.
By Lyndsey Telford and Claire IrwinUndercover footage obtained by BBC Spotlight indicates that young workers for a door-to-door sales company in Belfast are being exploited, it has been claimed.One said they earned less than 80p an hour over the course of three months.
She told the programme she struggled financially and ended up in debt as a result of her time with the company."I had to get a credit card but I can't afford to pay it off. I just racked up the debt. And I was in debt to my family, my friends because I was always having to get a lend of money.""I couldn't even afford to eat when I was over there, couldn't afford to buy nothing.
"I can't say that definitively, but it looks like exploitation to me. Particularly bearing in mind the youth of a lot of these people." He said if those working for the direct sales companies were to be deemed employees, they would be entitled to minimum wage and a whole host of other employment rights, like sick pay, maternity pay, holiday pay and overtime.She said she did not agree that those working with her company were "exploited or badly treated", and that the company was "clear with candidates about the role, their self-employed status, and how they get paid".
However, other former workers from within the same network of companies also said they ended up in debt. The companies are part of a wider network that operates underneath the global direct sales outsourcing organisation Credico.
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