1.   Millions of others will be openly exploited by unscrupulous employers.

2.   The scrapping of the Wage Councils will mean that millions of working people will be open to exploitation by unscrupulous employers.

3.   These new measures will actively encourage unscrupulous employers to further exploit over two and a half million low paid in this country, mostly of them women.

4.   Unscrupulous employers have found new ways of sidestepping European social directives which depend on having union representatives in the workplace.

5.   It has allowed unscrupulous employers to avoid E C directives such as collective redundancies, transfers of undertakings, a range of health and safety directives.

6.   Our members have had enough of repressive Tory employment laws that give too much power to unscrupulous employers and no protection for the workers.

7.   We need the European Social Chapter to bring unscrupulous employers into light.

8.   Advocates say it would shield workers from abuse by unscrupulous employers.

9.   But many cannot afford papers, and so barely eke out an existence, because they are taken advantage of by unscrupulous employers and landlords.

10.   Critics of the program say it is driving illegal workers further underground, making them more vulnerable to unscrupulous employers and more willing to accept even lower wages.