Official Worker Help Hotlines
If you are facing passport confiscation, immigration threats, unsafe housing, exploitation, harassment, or pressure to stay silent, this page is built to help you act fast — especially at night, on weekends, or during holidays.
This is not just a reference page. It is an emergency worker-protection directory. If you are in immediate danger, focus on getting safe first. Your documentation still matters, but safety comes before perfect recordkeeping.
Emergency Rule: If there is physical violence, sexual assault, unlawful confinement, medical danger, or you cannot safely stay where you are tonight, call emergency services first and leave if you safely can.
Immediate Danger
Call Emergency Services
If you are being threatened, trapped, assaulted, or cannot safely remain where you are, call your local emergency number right now.
Examples: Canada / USA / Mexico: 911 • France: 17 or 112 • UK: 999
Need Safe Housing Tonight
Ask for Shelter Help
If your employer controls your housing, room, transport, or documents, ask for emergency housing or safe accommodation before the office closes.
Examples: Canada / USA: 211 • France: 115 • UK: local council homelessness service
Worker Abuse / Exploitation
Call a Worker Help Line
Use the official or frontline hotline below if the abuse involves documents, wages, coercion, isolation, or immigration threats.
These services are often the fastest entry point when you cannot afford a lawyer immediately.
If It Is Night, Weekend, or a Public Holiday
- If the office is closed: use the services marked 24/7 first.
- If you need a place to sleep tonight: call your shelter or emergency accommodation route before trying to solve the legal side.
- If your phone is monitored: use a borrowed phone, hotel phone, front desk phone, hospital phone, or safe public phone if available.
- If you are a caregiver or live-in worker: do not wait for “business hours” if the home has become unsafe.
- If you are trapped by housing, transport, or withheld documents: describe that clearly when you call. Say you cannot safely remain where you are.
Practical Rule: Business-hours labor agencies are useful, but night and holiday survival usually starts with emergency services, emergency accommodation, or a 24/7 exploitation line.
"When workers panic, they often think they need the perfect number. They do not. They need the first safe step."
Official Hotlines by Country
Canada
Temporary Foreign Worker Abuse Line
1-866-602-9448
Availability: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Live agents: Monday to Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Languages: 200+ languages during business hours.
Safe place tonight: Call 211 for shelter and social-service referrals in much of Canada. Call 911 in immediate danger.
United States
Worker & Exploitation Help
1-866-487-9243
U.S. Department of Labor: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. local time.
1-888-373-7888
National Human Trafficking Hotline: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Text: BEFREE (233733)
Safe place tonight: Call 211 in many areas for shelter or emergency housing referrals. Call 911 in immediate danger.
France
Discrimination & Emergency Accommodation
3928
Défenseur des droits / Antidiscriminations: discrimination support and guidance.
115
Emergency accommodation: available day and night, including weekends and public holidays.
Immediate danger: 17 or 112
Mexico
PROFEDET Worker Protection
800 911 7877
Additional line: 800 717 2942
WhatsApp: 55 1484 8737
Service hours: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Immediate danger: 911
United Kingdom
Workplace Advice & Exploitation Help
0300 123 1100
Acas: Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
08000 121 700
Modern Slavery Helpline: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Immediate danger: 999
Safe place tonight: contact your local council homelessness service if you cannot safely remain where you are.
What to Say When You Call
If you are panicking, read this slowly and keep it simple:
- “My employer is controlling my work, housing, or documents.”
- “I do not feel safe staying where I am tonight.”
- “My passport / permit / ID is being withheld.”
- “I need help in [your language].”
- “I want to report workplace abuse, threats, or exploitation.”
- “I am afraid of retaliation if I return.”
What to Take If You Need to Leave Fast
- Your phone and charger.
- Medication and essential health items.
- ID or any copies / photos of your ID that you already have.
- Cash, bank card, and key account details if available.
- A written emergency contact in case your phone dies.
- Basic clothes and toiletries if you can grab them quickly.
- Your notes, screenshots, or exported WORKWARS timeline if safe to take.
Do Not Leave Your Evidence Behind
If it is safe to do so before you leave:
- Screenshot threats, housing messages, wage records, and document-control messages.
- Email yourself key evidence if you still have access.
- Photograph your work schedule, room, or unsafe conditions if safe and lawful.
- Write down exact dates, names, and what happened before memory gets blurred by stress.
- Save hotline call times and the name of anyone you spoke with.
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