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26 Sep 2023

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By Barnaby Eales, Wine-Searcher (UK)

Champagne Pickers Treated "Like Dogs"

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“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…