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Australia: Woolworths agrees to audit cleaning contractors annually and rectify underpayments
Author: Ewin Hannan, The Australian
"Woolies to audit contract cleaners to stop exploitation of workers", 29 August 2018...
- Related in-depth areas: Establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia Latest news on modern slavery & forced labour
- Related companies: Woolworths Limited
Australia: Cleaners in Woolworths' labour supply chain 'systematically ripped off' - hearing
Author: ABC News
"Senators tear into Woolworths over its contract cleaners being 'systematically ripped off'", 26 July 2018...
- Related in-depth areas: Establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia
- Related companies: Woolworths Limited
Agri Labour Australia's response
Author: Agri Labour Australia
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited the company to respond to claims of underpayment of workers and dangerous working conditions....
- Related stories: Australia: Labour hire company Agri Labour Australia faces allegations of underpaying workers; dangerous working conditions
- This is a response from the following companies: Agri Labour Australia
Australia: Labour hire company Agri Labour Australia faces allegations of underpaying workers; dangerous working conditions
Labour hire company Agri Labour Australia faces allegations of underpaying farm labourers. Workers also claim that they experienced "bleeding episodes" after breathing in farm chemicals. ...
Paper finds severe labour exploitation in Spanish & Italian agricultural supply chains; reflects on potential action co's can take
Author: Cecilia Barral Diego & Lisa Szeponik, Loening - Human Rights & Responsible Business
Germany is the main market destination for Spanish and Italian exportations in the processed food market, with a particular focus on the fruit and vegetable sector. In crop year 2016/2017, Germany bought from Spain almost 2.0 billion kilograms of...
Sri Lanka: Recruitment agencies allegedly force female domestic workers to take contraceptives to secure work in the Gulf
Author: Sophie Cousins, The Guardian
"Recruiters order Sri Lankan women to take birth control before working in Gulf", 6 April 2018...
- Related in-depth areas: Employment & recruitment agencies
India: Gov't. blacklists two UAE shipping cos. over labour abuses
Author: World Maritime News
"India Blacklists Two UAE Companies for Abandoning Seafarers" 30 Mar 2018...
- Related in-depth areas: Maritime Industry Maritime Industry and Human Rights: Seafarers
New publication in Polish and English: "Introducing Business and Human Rights to the general public in Poland"
In February 2018, the Polish newspapers Rzeczpospolita[1] and Parkiet[2] published a 32-page supplement on Business and Human Rights (BHR) under the title: "Business and Human Rights. Responsibility, benefits, ethics". The publication is also...
UAE: Online portal for hiring Indian workers aims to prevent recruitment fraud
Author: Abdulla Rasheed, Gulf News
"UAE-India integrated hiring system soon to prevent fraud", 21 March 2018...
Qatar: Local World Cup organiser working with contractors to pay back recruitment fees to migrant workers
Author: Anthony Harwood, Global Construction Review
By the end of March more than 5,500 people from across South Asia, a third of the workforce, will be reimbursed money they paid to middlemen who hired them to work in [Qatar]. The Doha government is negotiating with its contractors in the hope that...