Ways to contact the service:

You can contact the service by telephone for more information and to make a referral. You can also contact the main GMPERAS advice line.

Migrant Workers’ Employment Rights Advice Service

0161 833 1772

GMPERAS advice line

0161 839 3888

We regret that we do not have a ‘Drop In’ facility at our offices and that we are unable to provide interpretation/translation at ‘point of contact’, although this can be arranged.

Common issues the Service supports migrant workers with are:

Our objectives are:

• To provide high quality information and one to one advice and support to individual migrant workers across Greater Manchester
• To act as an expert second tier source of information, advice and support, to relevant agencies across Greater Manchester
• To raise awareness of issues affecting migrant workers amongst employers
• To carry out research into issues concerning migrant workers and disseminate the findings effectively.

We will do this by:

• Providing a free, confidential and accessible employment rights advice and support service to migrant worker and those who advise them
• Proving interpretation services and face-to-face advice and support where a case requires it.
• Distributing translated and relevant information, including employment rights fact sheets.
• Providing free training on migrant workers’ employment rights to agencies, community groups, employers and migrant workers
• Campaigning  for improvements in  the position of migrant workers.

Who is a migrant worker?

We considers the term ‘migrant worker’ to be self defining, therefore anyone who considers themselves to be a migrant worker is entitled to support from this service. The term generally refers to someone who has crossed an international border, into a country of which they were not originally a national, to work or to look for work.

Translation:

This fact sheet is currently available in Polish, Chinese, Urdu, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Czech, Hungarian and French (September 2009).