abstract:The Gangmasters Licensing Authority is an agency in the United Kingdom regulating the supply of workers to the agricultural, horticultural and shellfish industries. Employment agencies (labour providers) working in those fields have had to be licenced by the authority since 1 October 2006.
The GangmastersLicensingAuthority (GLA), a statutory watchdog, was set up in 2005 following the drowning of 21 Chinese cockle-pickers led into dangerous waters by their boss.