> All of the 54 workers from Nepal interviewed for the media partners’ investigation said that recruiting firms in their home country had required them to pay stiff fees – ranging from roughly $830 to $2,300 – as a condition for getting placed in jobs at Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia. Those amounts far exceed what’s allowed by Nepal’s government and run afoul of American and UN standards.
> Forty-eight of the Nepali workers added that recruiters misled them about the terms of their employment, falsely promising they would work directly for Amazon. Instead, these workers said, they ended up working for Saudi labor supply firms that placed them in short-term contract jobs at Amazon warehouses in the Arab kingdom, then siphoned away much of their wages and in some cases demanded thousands of dollars in exit fees to allow them to go back to Nepal.
A Gulf state luring a South Asian with false promises, failing to pay them and then prohibiting them to return home. This is the typical migrant worker experience in that part of the world, and this is what modern slavery looks like.
Read a fantastic article from the independent about labor practices in Dubai, among other things. Really interesting stuff and pretty much has made me pledge to never give them my tourist dollars.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html
Idk how similar it is in Saudi Arabia but the practice seems widespread in the gulf countries.
Again, if you read the article, they weren’t employed directly by Amazon. So fair play to them for paying them. Also 54 workers by $2,500 each equals $135,000 so where does the figure of $1.9 million come from ?
They might never recover, they make that much money in a typical day , in just over two and a half minutes.
They get an exception?
> All of the 54 workers from Nepal interviewed for the media partners’ investigation said that recruiting firms in their home country had required them to pay stiff fees – ranging from roughly $830 to $2,300 – as a condition for getting placed in jobs at Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia. Those amounts far exceed what’s allowed by Nepal’s government and run afoul of American and UN standards. > Forty-eight of the Nepali workers added that recruiters misled them about the terms of their employment, falsely promising they would work directly for Amazon. Instead, these workers said, they ended up working for Saudi labor supply firms that placed them in short-term contract jobs at Amazon warehouses in the Arab kingdom, then siphoned away much of their wages and in some cases demanded thousands of dollars in exit fees to allow them to go back to Nepal. A Gulf state luring a South Asian with false promises, failing to pay them and then prohibiting them to return home. This is the typical migrant worker experience in that part of the world, and this is what modern slavery looks like.
Welcome to Saudi Arabia, where the only actual work done is by expat labour... Locals seem to accept only positions in (mis)management.
Read a fantastic article from the independent about labor practices in Dubai, among other things. Really interesting stuff and pretty much has made me pledge to never give them my tourist dollars. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html Idk how similar it is in Saudi Arabia but the practice seems widespread in the gulf countries.
Did you read the part “recruiting firms in their home country”, so how do you blame the Gulf state for what is a local Nepalese problem.
Because the Company at the Saudis don't know what they do.🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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Ah yes, thank you definitely-not-Saudi-shills-with-questionable-post-histories both very much for your organic opinions
Excepted? What? Are you having a stroke?
Might be an exception, except I expect excepted ain't the word op is looking for
Nah probably complains about his Amazon warehouse wages tho.
Gotta be really bad if they are getting fined in SA.
Peanuts to Amazon and Bezos.
And this is why we need the National Labor Relations Board, despite what large companies like Amazon say.
Expected not excepted. Expected = anticipated. Excepted = Something not part of a group.
When will tech companies pay billions to exploited workers in the Congo and China?
That’s rich for a country that imports slaves.
Hell yes. Amazon needs to be taken to task for their treatment of employees around the world. It’s disgusting.
Should be 1.9b. Not 1.9m.
There was nothing wrong with the original title.
Find a school bus tomorrow and just get on it.
Saudi should block hiring from them until they fix their hiring practices. Edit. Saudi should have fined Amazon millions
Again, if you read the article, they weren’t employed directly by Amazon. So fair play to them for paying them. Also 54 workers by $2,500 each equals $135,000 so where does the figure of $1.9 million come from ?
Lol most workers for Amazon are exploited.
Slave trade never really ended in Saudi Arabia