Failings by major UK construction companies fuel forced labour - trade body

Ignorance and aggressive business models are fuelling modern slavery in Britain's construction industry as failings by major contractors leave British and foreign workers vulnerable to forced labor, a trade body and campaigners said on Monday. Top construction companies are pricing out ethical practice down their supply chains, and shifting responsibility to spot labor abuses onto their less well-resourced suppliers, found a report by Britain's Chartered Institute of Building .