McDonald’s and Chuck E Cheese tied to alleged foreign worker exploitation
요약
보고된 날짜: 2023년 10월 10일
위치: 사우디아라비아
기업 페이지
IHG Hotels & Resorts - Client기타
Not Reported ( 서비스 ) - Labour Supplier영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 필리핀 , 청소 및 유지보수 , Gender not reported ) , Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 아시아 태평양 , 호텔 , Gender not reported )토픽들
신분증 압류 , 불안정한/불적합한 생활환경 , 식량권 , 임금 착취결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, The Guardian; The Resource Centre에 의해 요청됨
응답을 포함하는 스토리: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: IHG's response to the Resource Centre can be read in full.
출처: News outlet
요약
보고된 날짜: 2023년 10월 10일
위치: 오만
기업 페이지
IHG Hotels & Resorts - Site영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 아시아 태평양 - 알 수 없는 업종 , Gender not reported )토픽들
이동 제한 , 신분증 압류결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, The Guardian; the Resource Centre에 의해 요청됨
응답을 포함하는 스토리: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: IHG's response to the Resource Centre can be read in full.
출처: News outlet
요약
보고된 날짜: 2023년 10월 10일
위치: 쿠웨이트
기업 페이지
IHG Hotels & Resorts - Site영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 아시아 태평양 , 호텔 , Gender not reported )토픽들
신분증 압류결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, The Guardian; the Resource Centre에 의해 요청됨
응답을 포함하는 스토리: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: IHG's response to the Resource Centre can be read in full.
출처: News outlet
요약
보고된 날짜: 2023년 10월 10일
위치: 사우디아라비아
기업 페이지
Riyadh International Catering Corp. (RICC) - Employer , McDonald's - Client기타
Not Reported ( 중개 업소 ) - Recruiter영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 네팔 , 레스토랑 및 바 , Gender not reported ) , Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 필리핀 , 레스토랑 및 바 , Gender not reported )토픽들
직업소개수수료 , 강간과 성적 학대 , 괴롭힘(성추행 제외) , 이동의 자유 , 이동 제한결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, The Guardian; Resource Centre에 의해 요청됨
응답을 포함하는 스토리: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: Responses from RICC and McDonald's to the Resource Centre can be read in full.
출처: News outlet
요약
보고된 날짜: 2023년 10월 23일
위치: 사우디아라비아
기업 페이지
Chuck E Cheese (part of CEC Entertainment) - Site영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 필리핀 , 레스토랑 및 바 , Gender not reported )토픽들
위협 , 신분증 압류 , 이동 제한 , 식량권 , 임금 착취결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, The Guardian; the Resource Centre에 의해 요청됨
응답을 포함하는 스토리: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: CEC did not respond to the Resource Centre's request for comment. Some comments are published in the Guardian coverage.
출처: News outlet
요약
보고된 날짜: 2023년 10월 10일
위치: 아랍에미리트
기업 페이지
Chuck E Cheese (part of CEC Entertainment) - Site영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 아시아 태평양 , 레스토랑 및 바 , Gender not reported )토픽들
신분증 압류 , 위협 , 이동 제한결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, The Guardian; the Resource Centre에 의해 요청됨
응답을 포함하는 스토리: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: CEC did not respond to the Resource Centre's request for comment. Some comments are published in the Guardian coverage.
출처: News outlet
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[McDonald's workers] Lee and Sunar are among nearly 100 migrant laborers from Asia who say they’ve been subjected to repressive labor practices while working at the Persian Gulf locations of four well-known American and British brands: McDonald’s, Amazon, Chuck E Cheese and the InterContinental Hotels Group.
The current and former workers say independent employment agents in their home countries coerced them into paying exorbitant recruiting fees, while labor contractors and workplace supervisors in Saudi Arabia and other destination countries subjected them to abuses that included confiscating their passports and limiting their freedom to leave their jobs...
The workers who provided information for this investigation were employed through various arrangements. Workers for McDonald’s, Chuck E Cheese and the UK-headquartered InterContinental Hotels Group in the region are mostly direct employees of franchise holders or other local partners. Workers who say they came to Saudi Arabia from Nepal to work directly for Amazon instead discovered they were employed by Saudi labor supply firms that placed them in contract positions at the online retail giant...
In a statement, a representative from McDonald’s Corporation headquarters in Chicago called the abuses detailed in the workers’ accounts “extremely troubling”. The statement said the global corporation updated its “ethical recruitment” standards last year to provide “a consistent approach” to protecting workers. These standards require that “no migrant worker pays for recruitment fees and related costs to secure their employment”, the statement said...
RICC, the major McDonald’s franchisee in Saudi Arabia, did not answer questions for this story, but said in a statement that it was in the process of updating its employment standards to align with McDonald’s enhanced recruitment standards. “Nothing is more important than ensuring the safety and respect of the employees who keep our restaurants running every day,” RICC said.
Amazon said in a statement that it was “deeply concerned” some of its contract workers were not treated with “the dignity and respect they deserve”. The InterContinental Hotels Group and the Chuck E Cheese brand’s parent, CEC Entertainment, said they took fair treatment of workers very seriously...
Many of the 97 current and former workers interviewed for this story agreed to be identified by name. Others spoke on the condition that their identities not be revealed because of concerns about retaliation. To support their accounts, workers provided photos, videos and copies of hundreds of documents, including paystubs, work certificates, passports, employment contracts and plane tickets...