26 سبتمبر 2023
Champagne Pickers Treated "Like Dogs"
الملخص
Date Reported: 26 سبتمبر 2023
الموقع: فرنسا
أخرى
Not Reported ( الزراعة والأغذية والمشروبات والتبغ والثروة السمكية: عامة ) - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: 18
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - بلغاريا , الزراعة والأغذية والمشروبات والتبغ والثروة السمكية: عامة , Gender not reported )القضايا
Occupational Health & Safety , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Access to electricityالرد
Response sought: لا
الإجراءات المتخذة: The local French prefecture shut down the accommodation.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 26 سبتمبر 2023
الموقع: فرنسا
الشركات
L'Orge Fleur - Other Value Chain Entityالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: 73
عمال مهاجرون: ( 73 - أوروبا وآسيا الوسطى , الزراعة والأغذية والمشروبات والتبغ والثروة السمكية: عامة , Gender not reported )القضايا
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditionsالرد
Response sought: لا
الإجراءات المتخذة: French authorities closed the accommodation site.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 26 سبتمبر 2023
الموقع: فرنسا
أخرى
Not Reported ( الزراعة والأغذية والمشروبات والتبغ والثروة السمكية: عامة ) - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: 160
عمال مهاجرون: ( 160 - أوكرانيا , الزراعة والأغذية والمشروبات والتبغ والثروة السمكية: عامة , Gender not reported )القضايا
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditionsالرد
Response sought: لا
الإجراءات المتخذة: French prefecture ordered the migrants to be rehoused.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 26 سبتمبر 2023
الموقع: فرنسا
الشركات
Vitichenille - Recruiter , Serviti - Recruiter , Rajviti - Recruiter , Veuve Cliquot (part of LVMH group) - Buyerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: 200
عمال مهاجرون: ( 200 - أفغانستان , الزراعة والأغذية والمشروبات والتبغ والثروة السمكية: عامة , Gender not reported )القضايا
الإتجار بالبشرالرد
Response sought: لا
الإجراءات المتخذة: Rajviti was sentenced to three years imprisonment and ordered to pay €100,000 ($106,479) for trafficking after losing their appeal against human trafficking charges. An employee of Champagne brand, Veuve Cliquot, owned by the LVMH group (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) was exonerated from any responsibility or charges. The Champagne house had said that it was unaware of the situation of the grape pickers.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 26 سبتمبر 2023
الموقع: فرنسا
أخرى
Not Reported ( الزراعة والأغذية والمشروبات والتبغ والثروة السمكية: عامة ) - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( Number unknown - Location unknown , الزراعة والأغذية والمشروبات والتبغ والثروة السمكية: عامة , Gender not reported )القضايا
الإتجار بالبشرالرد
Response sought: لا
نوع المصدر: News outlet
“Champagne Pickers Treated "Like Dogs"”
…Anavim… was allegedly responsible for 'hiring' the pickers according to the pickers…
… [Anavim’s] owner…denied allegations of human trafficking…
…18 Bulgarian pickers were housed in unsafe conditions…
Two further makeshift accommodation centers housing grape pickers from Eastern Europe…
… French authorities closed an accommodation site in the Champagne village of Vinay, in which 73 grape pickers from Eastern Europe were housed in unworthy conditions …in the greenhouses of plant nurseries owned by …L'Orge Fleur…
… French prefecture ordered 160 Ukrainian grape pickers to be rehoused…
…CGT union… denounced the existence of a makeshift campsite in the village of Moussey in which grape pickers had "no water, no electricity."…
Toubart and Chatillon…said it was their "collective responsibility" to put an end to such behavior…
…two owners of recruitment company Rajviti were sentenced to three years imprisonment…
An employee of Champagne brand, Veuve Cliquot, owned by the LVMH group (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) was exonerated from any responsibility or charges…
Veuve Cliquot had sub-contracted recruitment to recruitment agency Vitichenille, which in turn, sub-contracted Serviti, which then led to the sub-contraction of Rajviti to hire grape pickers…
…ordered Moet-Hennessy Champagne Services to pay €17,000 ($18,113) after it had rejected the company's appeal against charges of non-compliance to working hour laws…