Mukul Chawla: Modern slavery in the workplace
This article was co-written by Mukul Chawla (Partner), Catherine Turner (Senior Associate) and Luke Hardingham (Associate).
Modern slavery is not going away. COVID-19 has shone light on how employers treat their workforce. The inevitable glut of labour resulting from increased redundancy rates renders those at the murky end of long supply chains more vulnerable to human exploitation than ever before.
Simultaneously, institutions of every kind are facing unprecedented scrutiny to demonstrate not only compliance with the highest ethical business standards but also active support for the same. All this in the midst of a global economic downturn, during which the idea of cheap labour might previously have been regarded as a viable ingredient in the recipe for prosperity. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s March 2020 Policy Brief, which implicated the illegal mistreatment of Uyghur Muslims in China by 83 major brands, is just o
Fee Sharples, 65, from Hardingham and her husband John on a boat
- Credit: Sharples Family
A Norfolk nurse, who helped others for almost half a century, is encouraging people to walk all over cancer this March after her stage 4 breast cancer spread.
Fee Sharples, from Hardingham aged 21 when she first qualified as a nurse
- Credit: Sharples Family
After spending a lifetime on her feet supporting people, Fee Sharples, 65, from Hardingham, now finds walking painful after her stage 4 breast cancer spread to her pelvis.
The grandmother of two, who has raised over £10,000 for Cancer Research UK since being diagnosed in 2014, is encouraging people to sign up and get sponsored to walk 10,000 steps every day in March to support the charity.
This proved to be the first of the 19 railway books which they compiled together, 18 of them in the Middleton Press series. For anyone who loves reading about the railways across Norfolk and Suffolk they are a fascinating look at our history.
A goods diesel crosses Norwich Road, Fakenham, in July 1968 while a staff member leans on the gate, ready to close it behind the train. The Eastern Counties Farmers premises seen generated a lot of grain traffic up to the close in 1980. Photo: S Moore
- Credit: S Moore
So join us on a journey from Wymondham to Wells on the historic line which stretched across some beautiful Norfolk countryside.