The GLA has revoked the licence of a Lincolnshire gangmaster who attempted to avoid inspection on numerous occasions.

Marcin Porawski, who owns MPES Labour Agency based in Leverton, Lincolnshire, has now been declared not a “fit and proper” person to hold a GLA licence.

He did not appeal against this decision and must now cease trading in the GLA-regulated sectors or face prosecution for operating without a licence.

Reasons for the revocation included:

• Failing to co-operate with the GLA

• The business was not up to date with tax and National Insurance payments

• Workers were transported on makeshift benches made up of planks and breeze blocks in the back of a van.

GLA chairman Paul Whitehouse said: “We shall continue to protect the rights of workers and ensure that all gangmaster businesses meet basic legal requirements. It is wrong for workers to have to suffer dangerous conditions and unfair on legitimate businesses if they are undercut by those who break the law.”

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