21 Apr 2023
Human Trafficking or a Guest Worker Program? H-2A’s Systemic Issues Result in Catastrophic Violations
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 21 Apr 2023
Standort: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Andere
Not Reported ( Labour supplier ) - Employer , Not Reported ( Landwirtschaft/Nahrungsmittel/Getränke/Tabak/Fischerei: Allgemein ) - EmployerBetroffen
Total individuals affected: Number unknown
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( 2 - Mexiko , Landwirtschaft/Nahrungsmittel/Getränke/Tabak/Fischerei: Allgemein , Men , Documented migrants )Themen
Recht auf Nahrung , Personalbeschaffungsgebühren , Einschüchterung & Drohungen , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Contract Substitution , Restricted mobility , Irregular Work , Poverty Wages , Wage Theft , Minimum Wage , InformationszugangAntwort
Response sought: Nein
Art der Quelle: News outlet
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 21 Apr 2023
Standort: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Andere
Not Reported ( Tabak ) - EmployerBetroffen
Total individuals affected: 1
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( 1 - Mexiko , Landwirtschaft/Nahrungsmittel/Getränke/Tabak/Fischerei: Allgemein , Men , Documented migrants )Themen
Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Occupational Health & Safety , Verletzungen , Denial of leaveAntwort
Response sought: Nein
Art der Quelle: News outlet
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 21 Apr 2023
Standort: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Andere
Not Reported ( Landwirtschaft/Nahrungsmittel/Getränke/Tabak/Fischerei: Allgemein ) - EmployerBetroffen
Total individuals affected: 50
Wanderarbeitnehmer & eingewanderte Arbeitnehmer: ( 50 - Location unknown , Landwirtschaft/Nahrungsmittel/Getränke/Tabak/Fischerei: Allgemein , Gender not reported , Documented migrants )Themen
PersonalbeschaffungsgebührenAntwort
Response sought: Nein
Ergriffene Maßnahmen: The employer was ordered to pay H-2A workers more than $200,000 in back wages.
Art der Quelle: News outlet
...Diego still struggles to find the words to describe the labor camp he was expected to call home during the spring of 2018…
There weren’t enough beds for all the men. Those who had mattresses may have actually been the unlucky ones because they were yellowing, stained, and full of ticks.
There were also snakes in the house, including one in the kitchen where the only working appliance in the whole ramshackle place was a single refrigerator that looked like it’d never been cleaned.
There was no food and nowhere for Diego and his best friend Mario to rest their heads after a grueling bus ride from Mexico that took days longer than it should have and depleted the little money they had. The labor camp was the second blow they’d received since arriving in this place they called Carolina del Norte. The first came a couple of hours earlier.
H-2A workers often have confusing employment arrangements in which they are jointly employed by a labor contractor and a grower or farm. This was true for Diego and Mario, but effectively their primary boss was a young Mexican-American labor contractor…