Sport's Direct Founder Mike Ashley urged to drop staffing firm Transline Group

Mike Ashley has been urged by MPs to drop Transline Group – one of the agencies used to supply factory workers to the warehouse in Shirebrook, Derbyshire.

The Business Select Committee has written to the Founder of Sports Direct urging him to "terminate [his] working relationship" with Transline, following concerns that the agency mistreated workers and failed to adhere to business legislation – The Telegraph reports.

Iain Wright, Chairman of the Commons Committee, which published a report into Sports Direct's workplace practices, wrote in a letter to Ashley: “We ask you to think seriously about continuing to use Transline, a company that treats their workers and conducts its business in a way that is inconsistent with your own aspirations for Sports Direct to be seen to be on a par with the likes of Selfridges and John Lewis.”

Wright does not believe that Transline was honest about why it did not have an operating licence from an industry watchdog, and added that the agency was also exploiting workers, claiming they “deducted money from low-paid workers without proper explanation and justification”.