Human Trafficking or a Guest Worker Program? H-2A’s Systemic Issues Result in Catastrophic Violations
الملخص
Date Reported: 21 إبريل 2023
الموقع: الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية
أخرى
Not Reported ( Labour supplier ) - Employer , Not Reported ( الزراعة والأغذية والمشروبات والتبغ والثروة السمكية: عامة ) - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
عمال مهاجرون: ( 2 - المكسيك , الزراعة والأغذية والمشروبات والتبغ والثروة السمكية: عامة , Men , Documented migrants )القضايا
الحق في الغذاء , رسوم التوظيف , الترهيب والتهديد , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Contract Substitution , Restricted mobility , Irregular Work , Poverty Wages , Wage Theft , Minimum Wage , الحصول على المعلوماتالرد
Response sought: لا
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 21 إبريل 2023
الموقع: الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية
أخرى
Not Reported ( التبغ ) - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: 1
عمال مهاجرون: ( 1 - المكسيك , الزراعة والأغذية والمشروبات والتبغ والثروة السمكية: عامة , Men , Documented migrants )القضايا
Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Occupational Health & Safety , الإصابات , Denial of leaveالرد
Response sought: لا
نوع المصدر: News outlet
الملخص
Date Reported: 21 إبريل 2023
الموقع: الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية
أخرى
Not Reported ( الزراعة والأغذية والمشروبات والتبغ والثروة السمكية: عامة ) - Employerالفئة المتأثرة
Total individuals affected: 50
عمال مهاجرون: ( 50 - Location unknown , الزراعة والأغذية والمشروبات والتبغ والثروة السمكية: عامة , Gender not reported , Documented migrants )القضايا
رسوم التوظيفالرد
Response sought: لا
الإجراءات المتخذة: The employer was ordered to pay H-2A workers more than $200,000 in back wages.
نوع المصدر: News outlet
...Diego still struggles to find the words to describe the labor camp he was expected to call home during the spring of 2018…
There weren’t enough beds for all the men. Those who had mattresses may have actually been the unlucky ones because they were yellowing, stained, and full of ticks.
There were also snakes in the house, including one in the kitchen where the only working appliance in the whole ramshackle place was a single refrigerator that looked like it’d never been cleaned.
There was no food and nowhere for Diego and his best friend Mario to rest their heads after a grueling bus ride from Mexico that took days longer than it should have and depleted the little money they had. The labor camp was the second blow they’d received since arriving in this place they called Carolina del Norte. The first came a couple of hours earlier.
H-2A workers often have confusing employment arrangements in which they are jointly employed by a labor contractor and a grower or farm. This was true for Diego and Mario, but effectively their primary boss was a young Mexican-American labor contractor…