Useful contacts for workers

• The National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
  Local branches (or bureaux) can provide advice and guidance for initiatives to support migrant workers in rural areas.
• HSE’s Workers’ web pages
  Provides advice about your rights and responsibilities as a worker in GB.
• Border and Immigration Agency's requirements for settlement
  This website will help you understand the immigration system and what your rights and responsibilities are when you make an application.
• Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR)
  Provides guidance for employers and employees on a wide range of employment matters, including working time and annual leave entitlement. BERR have also produced a basic, one page 'Working in the UK: Know your rights and where to get help and advice' leaflet available in Bulgarian, English, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian and Slovakian (Tel: 020 7215 5000).
• Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (acas)
  Provides independent, up-to-date advice and guidance on employment relations (Tel: 08457 47 47 47).
• Gangmasters Licensing Authority (GLA)
  Authority set up to curb the exploitation of workers in the agriculture, horticulture, shellfish-gathering and associated processing and packaging industries (Tel: 0845 602 5020).
• Directgov
  Access to and information from a wide range of government departments.
• Trades Union Congress (TUC)
  Represents people working in Britain. The TUC have published a safety leaflet, 'Your health, your safety: A guide for workers'. It provides information about safety rights at work which is translated into 19 different languages. The TUC have also produced a  leaflet for people coming to work in the UK from the eight new member countries of the European Union. The leaflet, 'Working in the UK: Your rights', gives information about your legal rights while you work here (Tel: 0870 600 4882).
• Trades Union Congress - Polish language website to support the increasing number of Polish workers in the UK
  Run by the TUC in partnership with Citizens Advice and Solidarnosc, it explains the rights workers can expect at work, including health and safety, working time, holiday entitlement and sick pay. There's also information about social issues such as housing and health and guidance about what living and working in the UK is really like.
• Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
  Information on funds available for employers to draw on for ESOL provision (where workers are earning less than £15K a year).
• UK Income Tax Advice
  Multi-lingual information sheet on UK taxes.
• Worker Registration Scheme
  From 1 May 2004, most nationals of the new member states (except Cyprus and Malta) who wish to work for more than one month for an employer in the UK need to register under the Worker Registration Scheme.
• The Migrants Integrated Gateway™
  Two-way gateway to information, advice and guidance for people wishing to live and work in the expanding UK.
• Construction Skills
  Supporting the effective integration of migrant workers. Provides details on how Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) cards might be useful.
• Working in South Lincolnshire
  Advice and guidance for migrant workers in the East of England.
• Cornwall Strategic Partnership’s Migrant Worker Task Group
  This task group was pulled together to investigate the issues and opportunities connected with migrant workers.