{"id":16949,"date":"2024-12-20T19:39:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T18:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/workers-in-saudi-arabia-say-amazon-failed-to-compensate-them-for-labor-abuses-they-played-a-game-against-me\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T18:39:08","slug":"workers-in-saudi-arabia-say-amazon-failed-to-compensate-them-for-labor-abuses-they-played-a-game-against-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/workers-in-saudi-arabia-say-amazon-failed-to-compensate-them-for-labor-abuses-they-played-a-game-against-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers in Saudi Arabia say Amazon failed to compensate them for labor abuses: \u2018They played a game against me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thirty-three of 44 current and former contract workers who paid large recruiting fees say they didn\u2019t receive refunds after working within the company\u2019s Saudi operations <\/p>\n

In February, one of the world\u2019s richest employers, Amazon, announced it had refunded nearly $2m to more than 700 overseas workers who had been forced to pay big recruiting fees to get work at the company\u2019s warehouses in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

It was a rare win for migrant laborers, a class of vulnerable workers who are often targeted for deceptive recruiting tactics and other abuses. One Nepali laborer said he was so shocked when a refund from Amazon appeared in his bank account that he stayed up much of the night, rechecking his account balance on his phone.<\/p>\n

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\nThirty-three of 44 current and former contract workers who paid large recruiting fees say they didn\u2019t receive refunds after working within the company\u2019s Saudi operations
\nIn February, one of the world\u2019s richest employers, Amazon, announced it had refunded nearly $2m to more than 700 overseas workers who had been forced to pay big recruiting fees to get work at the company\u2019s warehouses in Saudi Arabia.
\nIt was a rare win for migrant laborers, a class of vulnerable workers who are often targeted for deceptive recruiting tactics and other abuses. One Nepali laborer said he was so shocked when a refund from Amazon appeared in his bank account that he stayed up much of the night, rechecking his account balance on his phone. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thirty-three of 44 current and former contract workers who paid large recruiting fees say they didn\u2019t receive refunds after working within the company\u2019s Saudi operations In February, one of the world\u2019s richest employers, Amazon, announced it had refunded nearly $2m to more than 700 overseas workers who had been forced to pay big recruiting fees …<\/p>\n

Workers in Saudi Arabia say Amazon failed to compensate them for labor abuses: \u2018They played a game against me\u2019<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}