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<p>The Immigration Act 2016 creates a new Director of Labour Market Enforcement. They
will be responsible for overseeing and setting priorities for the Employment Agency
Standards Inspectorate, National Minimum Wage enforcement and the Gangmasters and
Labour Abuse Authority. This will strengthen efforts to identify businesses that engage
in labour exploitation.</p><p> </p><p>To enable more effective enforcement, we are
creating:</p><ul><li>A new intelligence hub so that enforcement is targeted at areas
of risk; and</li><li>A new regime of Labour Market Enforcement undertakings and orders,
backed up by a criminal offence and custodial sentence, to allow us to tackle repeat
labour market offenders and rogue businesses.</li></ul><p> </p><p>We have already
reformed the Gangmasters Licensing Authority into the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse
Authority with the ability to tackle labour exploitation.</p><p><strong> </strong></p>
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