E38k backpay for underpaid farmworker

摘要

A farmworker has been awarded E38,000 for underpayment of wages after working an average 55-hour week at a farm in Berkshire. Peter Bailey, 42, was employed as a tractor driver and stockman at Hillfoot Farm, a 120ha mixed beef and arable farm in Bucklebury, for more than 22 years. But Mr Bailey said he was given no contract of employment and was asked to work long hours, averaging about 55 hours a week. At busy times of the year such as calving and harvesting he would work 16-hour days.