26 set 2023
Champagne Pickers Treated "Like Dogs"
Resumo
Data informada: 26 set 2023
Localização: França
Outros
Not Reported ( Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral ) - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 18
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Bulgária , Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral , Gender not reported )Temas
Saúde e Segurança Ocupacional , Condições de vida precárias/inadequadas , Access to electricityResposta
Response sought: Não
Medidas tomadas: The local French prefecture shut down the accommodation.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
Resumo
Data informada: 26 set 2023
Localização: França
Empresas
L'Orge Fleur - Other Value Chain EntityAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 73
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 73 - Europa e Ásia Central , Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral , Gender not reported )Temas
Condições de vida precárias/inadequadasResposta
Response sought: Não
Medidas tomadas: French authorities closed the accommodation site.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
Resumo
Data informada: 26 set 2023
Localização: França
Outros
Not Reported ( Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral ) - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 160
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 160 - Ucrânia , Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral , Gender not reported )Temas
Condições de vida precárias/inadequadasResposta
Response sought: Não
Medidas tomadas: French prefecture ordered the migrants to be rehoused.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
Resumo
Data informada: 26 set 2023
Localização: França
Empresas
Vitichenille - Recruiter , Serviti - Recruiter , Rajviti - Recruiter , Veuve Cliquot (part of LVMH group) - BuyerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 200
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 200 - Afeganistão , Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral , Gender not reported )Temas
Tráfico de pessoasResposta
Response sought: Não
Medidas tomadas: Rajviti was sentenced to three years imprisonment and ordered to pay €100,000 ($106,479) for trafficking after losing their appeal against human trafficking charges. An employee of Champagne brand, Veuve Cliquot, owned by the LVMH group (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) was exonerated from any responsibility or charges. The Champagne house had said that it was unaware of the situation of the grape pickers.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
Resumo
Data informada: 26 set 2023
Localização: França
Outros
Not Reported ( Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral ) - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Localização desconhecida , Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral , Gender not reported )Temas
Tráfico de pessoasResposta
Response sought: Não
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
“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…