Saudi Arabia: “I would fear going to work” Labour exploitation at Carrefour sites in Saudi Arabia
要約
Date Reported: 2024年10月21日
場所: サウジアラビア
企業
Carrefour - Other Value Chain Entity , Majid Al Futtaim - Client , Al-Mutairi Support Services - Employer関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - アジア・太平洋 , スーパーマーケット及び食料品 , Men , Unknown migration status ) , 移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - ネパール , 送料及び手数料: 一般 , Men , Unknown migration status )課題
Wage Theft , 傷害 , Irregular Work , Dismissal , 採用費 , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Denial of leave , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , 威嚇及び脅迫 , 表現の自由の否定 , 強制労働と現代の奴隷制 , 人身売買 , Contract Substitution , 食の権利 , 病気 , 情報へのアクセス , Excessive production targets , 水へのアクセス , Access to electricity , 差別/多様性: 一般回答
Response sought: Yes, by Resource Centre & Journalists
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取られた措置: Carrefour and MAF have since said they have launched an internal investigation into the findings, and Carrefour instructed a third-party audit of its franchise partner’s operations. In October, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Carrefour & Majid Al Futtaim to respond to the allegations outlined in the report and provide information on any planned or actual remedy that has taken place for current and former contracted workers who suffered abuses, including: 1) by when it will be administered, and b) the form redress will take. Further, the Resource Centre also asked Carrefour and Majid Al Futtaim to disclose the outcomes of their joint investigation into working conditions, and to disclose the results of Carrefour’s externally commissioned audit into Majid Al Futtaim operations. Carrefour and Majid Al Futtaim’s responded. The Resource Centre was not able to contact Al Mutairi to invite a response to the allegations; if a response is received in future this page will be updated accordingly.
情報源のタイプ: NGO
要約
Date Reported: 2024年10月21日
場所: サウジアラビア
企業
Carrefour - Other Value Chain Entity , Badoor Najed - Employer , Majid Al Futtaim - Client関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - アジア・太平洋 , スーパーマーケット及び食料品 , Men , Unknown migration status ) , 移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - インド - Sector unknown , Men , Unknown migration status )課題
Restricted mobility , 採用費 , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Denial of leave , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , 威嚇及び脅迫 , 表現の自由の否定 , 強制労働と現代の奴隷制 , 人身売買 , Contract Substitution , 食の権利 , 病気 , 情報へのアクセス , Excessive production targets , Wage Theft , 傷害 , Irregular Work , 差別/多様性: 一般 , 水へのアクセス , Access to electricity , Dismissal回答
Response sought: Yes, by Resource Centre & Journalists
Story containing response: (Find out more)
External link to response: (Find out more)
取られた措置: Carrefour and MAF have since said they have launched an internal investigation into the findings, and Carrefour instructed a third-party audit of its franchise partner’s operations. In October, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Carrefour, Majid Al Futtaim and Badoor Najed to respond to the allegations outlined in the report and provide information on any planned or actual remedy that has taken place for current and former contracted workers who suffered abuses, including: 1) by when it will be administered, and b) the form redress will take. Further, the Resource Centre also asked Carrefour and Majid Al Futtaim to disclose the outcomes of their joint investigation into working conditions, and to disclose the results of Carrefour’s externally commissioned audit into Majid Al Futtaim operations. Carrefour and Majid Al Futtaim’s responded; Badoor Najed did not respond.
情報源のタイプ: NGO
要約
Date Reported: 2024年10月21日
場所: サウジアラビア
企業
Carrefour - Other Value Chain Entity , Majid Al Futtaim - Client関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - アジア・太平洋 , スーパーマーケット及び食料品 , Men , Unknown migration status )課題
Restricted mobility , 採用費 , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Denial of leave , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , 威嚇及び脅迫 , 表現の自由の否定 , 強制労働と現代の奴隷制 , 人身売買 , Contract Substitution , 食の権利 , 病気 , 情報へのアクセス , Excessive production targets , Wage Theft , 傷害 , Irregular Work , Dismissal , 水へのアクセス , Access to electricity , 差別/多様性: 一般回答
Response sought: Yes, by Resource Centre & Journalists
Story containing response: (Find out more)
External link to response: (Find out more)
取られた措置: Carrefour and MAF have since said they have launched an internal investigation into the findings, and Carrefour instructed a third-party audit of its franchise partner’s operations. In October, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Carrefour & Majid Al Futtaim to respond to the allegations outlined in the report and provide information on any planned or actual remedy that has taken place for current and former contracted workers who suffered abuses, including: 1) by when it will be administered, and b) the form redress will take. Further, the Resource Centre also asked Carrefour and Majid Al Futtaim to disclose the outcomes of their joint investigation into working conditions, and to disclose the results of Carrefour’s externally commissioned audit into Majid Al Futtaim operations. Carrefour and Majid Al Futtaim’s responded.
情報源のタイプ: NGO
要約
Date Reported: 2024年10月21日
場所: サウジアラビア
企業
Carrefour - Other Value Chain Entity , Majid Al Futtaim - Client関連
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
移住者・移民労働者: ( Number unknown - アジア・太平洋 , スーパーマーケット及び食料品 , Men , Unknown migration status )課題
採用費 , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Denial of leave , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Access to Non-Judicial Remedy , 威嚇及び脅迫 , 表現の自由の否定 , 強制労働と現代の奴隷制 , 人身売買 , Contract Substitution , 食の権利 , 病気 , 情報へのアクセス , Excessive production targets , Wage Theft , 傷害 , Irregular Work , Dismissal , 水へのアクセス , Access to electricity , 差別/多様性: 一般回答
Response sought: Yes, by Resource Centre & Journalists
Story containing response: (Find out more)
External link to response: (Find out more)
取られた措置: Carrefour and MAF have since said they have launched an internal investigation into the findings, and Carrefour instructed a third-party audit of its franchise partner’s operations. In October, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Carrefour & Majid Al Futtaim to respond to the allegations outlined in the report and provide information on any planned or actual remedy that has taken place for current and former contracted workers who suffered abuses, including: 1) by when it will be administered, and b) the form redress will take. Further, the Resource Centre also asked Carrefour and Majid Al Futtaim to disclose the outcomes of their joint investigation into working conditions, and to disclose the results of Carrefour’s externally commissioned audit into Majid Al Futtaim operations. Carrefour and Majid Al Futtaim’s responded.
情報源のタイプ: News outlet
With an annual turnover of over EUR 94 billion, the Carrefour Group is one of the world’s largest supermarket brands – operating over 14,000 stores in 40 countries. Headquartered in France, the company operates in the Middle East, Africa and Asia via its franchisee Majid Al Futtaim, with between 2,000 and 3,000 staff in Saudi Arabia – roughly a third of whom are contracted via outsourced labour supply companies…
The Carrefour Group is far from the first company to be faced with serious labour abuses in their value chain in Saudia Arabia. Indeed, an investigation conducted by Amnesty International in 2023 into conditions faced by migrant workers contracted to Amazon warehouses in the country highlighted numerous grim accounts of exploitation…
In the course of Amnesty International’s investigation into Amazon, researchers discovered at least one of the company’s contractors also supplied migrant workers to Carrefour Group’s facilities in the Saudi Kingdom. Interviewing 17 men from India, Nepal and Pakistan who had worked at Carrefour’s facilities in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam – and analysing other evidence such as employment contracts and audiovisual material - Amnesty International identified similar patterns of labour abuse amongst workers employed by four third-party contractors used by Majid Al Futtaim in Carrefour stores. Like with Amazon, this included cases likely amounting to forced labour and human trafficking for the purposes of labour exploitation….