{"id":3140,"date":"2020-06-29T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/the-right-to-work-safely"},"modified":"2020-06-29T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T15:05:00","slug":"the-right-to-work-safely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/the-right-to-work-safely","title":{"rendered":"The right to work safely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This crisis has thrown the spotlight and gratitude onto those who have kept the country going. Cleaners, taxi drivers, delivery drivers, shop workers, nurses and carers have been at maximum risk but often minimum wage, doing jobs that Britain simply could not function without.<br \/>\nBut for those without the right papers, work can be a dangerous place.<br \/>\nAnjay (not his real name), is a Tamil refugee, but lived undocumented in the UK for several years before he was able to get the legal representation he needed to be recognised by the Home Office. During this time, he worked informally in a number of jobs, including shops, a petrol station, and a restaurant.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have to work to make a living. And we\u2019re desperate to help and save our families\u201d Anjay explains. He was exploited by employers and agents, who stole his wages. When he couldn\u2019t afford rent, he became homeless, despite working 12-hour days. He never had enough to eat.<br \/>\nIt is impossible for people like Anjay to&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This crisis has thrown the spotlight and gratitude onto those who have kept the country going. Cleaners, taxi drivers, delivery drivers, shop workers, nurses and carers have been at maximum risk but often minimum wage, doing jobs that Britain simply could not function without. But for those without the right papers, work can be a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}