<p>The Code of Practice for Ethical Employment</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government – in the Senedd at 1:33 pm on 27 September 2017.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:33, 27 September 2017

Well, it is very important—I agree with Suzy Davies—that we are alert to those instances where employers try to subvert the minimum wage. We know that there are instances, sadly, in Wales where, through tied accommodation, or tied transport, for example, in effect, people are paid below the statutory minimum. Now, we rely on our trade union colleagues very heavily to be part of that network that alerts us to those instances when they happen.

The document that we published as a Government a couple of weeks ago on fair movement of people sets out a series of actions that we believe the UK Government needs to take to make sure that the rights that people have at that part of a labour market are properly protected, but steps that the Welsh Government intends to take as well, to make sure that, where people are not having their rights properly observed, we have strong mechanisms for identifying those instances, and then pursuing them.