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Wage theft is the illegal practice of withholding wages or benefits that are owed to an employee. It can include failing to pay overtime, paying less than the minimum wage, making illegal deductions from paychecks, or misclassifying workers to avoid paying certain benefits. Wage theft is a serious problem that affects workers in many industries, and can have significant financial and emotional consequences for workers and their families. It is important for workers to be aware of their rights and to know how to report wage theft if it occurs. Governments and advocacy groups also play a role in preventing and addressing wage theft through education, enforcement, and other means.
Appalling treatment of low-paid migrant workers in Qatar has been under the spotlight as the World Cup gets underway. Amid intense scrutiny on Qatar’s human rights record and its treatment of migrant workers, activists in the U.S. are raising their own concerns about similar treatment in the U.S. and inviting us to look inward at…
A new report by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has shed light on widespread abuse of migrant workers in Qatar as the World Cup gets underway. “Legacy of the kafala […]
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“The existing social order is a swindle and its cherished beliefs mostly delusions.” – George Orwell Human trafficking is an issue that takes many forms and typologies across the world and society. Traditionally, human trafficking is thought of as falling into one of two categories: sex trafficking, trafficking in persons for commercial sexual exploitation, or…
In 2018, the police came to a home in Saugus, Massachusetts, to rescue Anabelle Masalon, a Filipina housekeeper who had been essentially a prisoner of the family from the United Arab Emirates that employed her. She had been forced to work 21-hour days, earning no more than $400 a month, unable to leave the house…
Number of Venezuelan migrants in New York City — many of them bused there from Texas by state officials protesting President Biden’s immigration policies — who have hopped onto vans headed to Florida to pursue vague promises of private-sector jobs in the Hurricane Ian recovery, even though community organizers have warned of human trafficking and recruitment fraud:…
Melba regularly showed up at Boston Children’s Hospital in 2018 to accompany a child she cared for who was being treated there. But nobody noticed — or asked about — Melba’s own suffering. The petite Filipina was miserable, working more than 100 hours a week as a maid and nanny, earning between $400 and $550…
OTTUMWA, Iowa — Ottumwa Police have concluded a two-years-long investigation into human trafficking in the city. Two U.S. residents, originally from Micronesia, pled guilty in Federal Court to two counts of unlawful conduct with respect to documents in furtherance of labor trafficking, or forced labor. Nesly Mwarechong, 46, and Bertino Weires, 51, allegedly took passports and social…
MEDFORD, ORE. — Early on a warm August morning in 2021 — as helicopters and drones hovered overhead — three women huddled under a sheet of plastic in a southern Oregon greenhouse. Outside, state, federal and county law enforcement were raiding the massive unlicensed cannabis farm where the women had worked for two months. Officers…
Slave-Free Alliance has launched its services in Norway to support businesses with their obligations to uphold human rights and ensure decent working conditions, mandated by the new Transparency Act. Slave-Free Alliance brings an international track record of helping organisations to protect their operations, supply chains and people from modern slavery and labour exploitation. It offers…
Two bills awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature — or veto — would broaden protections for an estimated 300,000 foreign contract workers laboring in California on work visas. While the documented abusive conditions in “guest worker” visa programs have led to calls for their termination, these bills would offer some improvements to the workers involved. AB…
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