Hundreds of modern slavery victims working in Britain’s hospitality industry, charity warns
A charity organization said hundreds of modern slavery sacrifices work in the bars, restaurants, hotels and camping areas of England.
Some of the victims “withdrawal” with their promises of a better life were left with high debts of £ 30,000.
He said that the unseen, similar abuse in the maintenance sector in recent years has now become apparent in the hospitality industry and that the aid line has made a sharp increase in potential victims due to the talented worker visa route.
Last year, the potential victims of 75 modern slavery in the hospitality sector were reported to be only one of them in 2023.
In general, between January 2024 and June 2025, there were 485 potential victims on the unseen help line, including packages and catering companies, as well as bars and restaurants, and 85 of the holiday accommodation such as hotels, motels, camping and holiday letters.
These include people among workers, where talented workers’ visas and other visas or visa information were not clarified to the aid line.
In the report, he said: “The features seen in modern slavery in the care sector since 2022 have now become apparent in hospitality, and immigrant workers are experiencing most of the same abuse in their hands.
“Key themes are about a great inequality between those who are promised to a worker and when they arrive in England. Illegal wages are collected in return for visas and sponsorship certificates; workers are usually found in accommodation on the site or by their employers; workers are threatened to cancel or ignore their visas.
Earlier this year, the figures published, in recent years, under the sponsors whose licenses have been canceled, thousands of care workers came to England and suggested that the system of exploitation in the system.
UNEEN Deputy General Manager Justine Carter said that the hospitality sector first showed the “same characteristics ın of the exploitation seen in the UK care sector in 2022.
He said: “After coming to the UK, there is a great inequality between those promised to the workers and reality.
“Many of them receive illegal wages, forced to non -standard houses and threaten to be deported if they speak.”
In the report, even though employers need to meet recruitment costs, it is not always what happens, “many employers”, not only for migrant workers and not paying for visas and sponsorship certificates, but also demanded “exorbitant wages”.
The aid line had examples that hospitality workers were collected illegally for visa fees by employers’ average debts were collected illegally around 18.271.
Uneen said that some workers owe them to people in their own countries, but others are “in the captivity of debt to their employers and that they gradually owe it through salary deductions”.
Charity can end in situations where people are left with very little money to look at them, and some employers cannot get out of a situation where some employers cannot pressure for long hours or time to pay for debt.
Indian citizens were mostly reported in modern slavery situations of hospitality, generally made up 40 percent, and this was followed by Bangladesh citizens and was 13 percent.
Although the number of British citizens is low, the UK was in the first quarter in 2024 and in the first half of 2025, 17 modern slavery victims for two years.
For a comment, the Ministry of Interior was contacted.
