Outsourced IKEA drivers live in their trucks for months

Poor employee work conditions have sparked many headlines over the last 18 months – with IKEA at the centre of the latest controversy.

Sports Direct and recruitment firm Transline Group were the target of a Guardian sting into their treatment of warehouse staff; New Look and River Island were criticised for using suppliers that paid less than the minimum wage; and Uber attracts almost weekly controversy for their treatment of office-based and taxi-driving workers.

Now, Swedish furniture company IKEA have been outed as an employer using lorry firms that pay workers less than three pounds an hour – BBC reports.

The drivers – brought over to Western Europe from firms based in Eastern Europe – live out of their cabs for month on end.