India: Fishermen endure exploitation & abuse on UK company's vessels, receive no protection, while seeking livelihoods abroad
요약
보고된 날짜: 2024년 4월 3일
위치: 영국
기업 페이지
GP Shipping Services - Employer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 1
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 1 - 인도 , 낚시 , Men , Documented migrants )토픽들
직업소개수수료결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, Journalist에 의해 요청됨
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시행된 조치: a director at GP Shipping Services said the company has never received a complaint about any of his agents collecting fees to provide jobs.
출처: News outlet
요약
보고된 날짜: 2024년 4월 3일
위치: 영국
기업 페이지
Seafood Ecosse - Employer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 인도 , 낚시 , Men , Documented migrants )토픽들
위협 , 괴롭힘(성추행 제외) , 비사법적 구제절차에 대한 접근성 , 강간과 성적 학대결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, Journalist에 의해 요청됨
응답을 볼 수 있는 외부 링크: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: Seafood Ecosse did not respond to requests for comment for this story.
출처: News outlet
"How Indian fishers suffer exploitation and abuse on UK boats", 3 April 2024
Mariyappan, who belongs to a fishing community in Kanniyakumari, Tamil Nadu, immediately accepted the offer, from the Star Fishing Company.
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The next morning, the United Kingdom Border Force arrived at the vessel and confiscated all the Indian fishermen’s documents, including passports and discharge books, which are documents that record seafarers’ work experience and qualifications. They then arrested all three for allegedly breaking a law that bars transit-visa holders from entering the country except when they are passing through it. They were also accused of violating a rule that bars fishers with transit visas from working within 22 km of the British coast.
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Star Fishing Company did not respond to requests for comment for this story.
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British recruitment agencies started hiring Indian crew for the United Kingdom’s fishing industry only around five years ago – they found these workers with the help of agents in India.
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Under the transit-visa system, fishing companies hire seafarers or deckhands from outside the country, and outside the European Union, for as little as a third of the price of British crewmen.
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Once on board, seafarers are no longer governed by the United Kingdom’s employment laws and immigration controls, a legal loophole used by fishing companies, boat owners, and skippers to exploit and abuse migrant workers, according to the International Transport Workers’ Federation.