Online retailer Amazon said Friday it had paid $1.9 million to more than 700 contracted workers in Saudi Arabia as reimbursements for unlawful recruitment fees, among other alleged violations. "We found instances where contracted workers were required to pay fees, including recruitment fees and other costs" by Saudi recruitment agents and labour supply companies, Amazon said in a statement posted …
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White molds wearing disposable gloves whizz by on a conveyor belt in a promotional video for the world’s biggest glove maker, Top Glove. “Most Malaysian workers don’t want to do the poorly paid, hard and dangerous work offered in these factories,” said Bent Gehrt, from the Workers’ Rights Consortium, a labor rights NGO based in Washington D.C. An employee monitors …
