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The employer tried to get out of paying its workers, which can work but only for a while. Nothing forced these worker to stay aboard except their hope to get pa
by incrudible 6y ago
The employer tried to get out of paying its workers, which can work but only for a while. Nothing forced these worker to stay aboard except their hope to get paid eventually. It's fraud, that is all there is to it.
Speaking of actual modern day slavery, there's always some form of coercion, some threat of violence, some legal/immigration issues that keeps the worker from leaving. This just isn't the case here.
- indymike 6y ago"there's always some form of coercion, some threat of violence, some legal/immigration issues that keeps the worker from leaving." Actually, there were coercive disciplinary policies in play, too. For example, if you questioned the pay shortage, your id card was taken from you.
- incrudible 6y agoDo you have a source for that? I can not find anything like that in the reporting.
- indymike 6y agoSure. https://m.businesstoday.in/story/wistron-violence-salary-issues-overtime-attendance-many-labour-law-violations-found-at-karnataka-plant/1/425455.html https://m.businesstoday.in/story/wistron-violence-salary-iss...
- incrudible 6y agoThanks. I'm not sure that "identity card" here would mean something like a passport versus a company identification card. Taking away the passport is indeed a common scheme in human trafficking, but these seem to be domestic workers so it's unclear how that would work.