Slavery
- Well based on my previous experience some of the employer will do something to make sure the employees not going to run away (as the employer invest quite some to bring these worker from other country to be working for them) but in some extend its will be consider as slavery.
- The Committee Against Modern Slavery has listed 5 criteria of slavery, that is:
- Confiscation of identification papers;
- Taking advantage of the vulnerability of a person to make him or her supply a service (or work) without payment or against a very small payment that has no correlation to the amount of work provided, and providing lodging and working conditions contrary to human dignity (15–18-hour working days, 7 days a week, no holidays or vacation, insufficient food, squalid housing, etc.);
- Sequestration or “self-sequestration”: the person is conditioned by the employer, who says things like, “You are in an irregular situation, if the police stop you in the street, you will go to prison and will be deported”;
- Rupture of family links: prohibition against receiving or sending mail and making phone calls; and
- Cultural isolation: The people subject to slavery come from Southeast Asia, Madagascar, West or East Africa, the Maghreb, and so on—they do not know the language and the laws of the destination country, or the rights that protect them, and they are thus in a vulnerable situation.
So if your guys met any kind of situation like this you had the right or should tell those employer, that these kind of action is another way of modern slavery
- The Trafficking in Persons (PIT) Report of 2005 emphasizes that the defining element of the definition of trafficking is the force, fraud, or coercion exercised on the person by another to perform or remain in service to the master. There is also internal trafficking that occurs that does not require movement.
- The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) eliminates the element of physical transportation and defines “severe forms of trafficking” as
- Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age; or
- The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.
Till next time,
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