Sports Direct recruitment firm set to face MPs

The recruitment agency which supplies staff to Derbyshire based retail giant Sports Direct will be questioned by MPs today as part of an inquiry into workers' rights.

The Transline agency is being brought before the Business Committee for a second time to be quizzed about the benefits of agency work and restrictions to their terms and conditions.

The committee has previously complained workers at the sportswear retailer's Shirebrook warehouse were treated without dignity or respect.

Transline denied misleading MPs, prompting committee chairman IainWright to call on Sports Direct's founder, Mike Ashley to cut ties with the firm last year.

Transline's finance director Jennifer Hardy, who was questioned by MPs during last year's inquiry, will appear again today.

Since working practices at Sports Direct came under fire, Transline has also faced criticism over working conditions at Asos's warehouse in Yorkshire.

The employment agency's deal with Amazon was axed by the online giant earlier this month.

MPs will also hear from Steve Turner, assistant general secretary of Unite,which has led the campaign to improve workers' rights at Sports Direct, and Tim Roache, leader of the GMB Union, which has been highlighting working conditions at Asos.