{"id":20357,"date":"2025-10-06T15:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/06\/we-want-justice-workers-at-amazon-warehouses-in-saudi-arabia-still-waiting-on-financial-redress\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:37:19","slug":"we-want-justice-workers-at-amazon-warehouses-in-saudi-arabia-still-waiting-on-financial-redress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/06\/we-want-justice-workers-at-amazon-warehouses-in-saudi-arabia-still-waiting-on-financial-redress\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We want justice\u2019: workers at Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia still waiting on financial redress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asian migrant laborers who paid predatory recruiting fees say global mega-corporation has not kept its promise to pay them restitution<\/p>\n<p>Warehouse laborers from Asia say the world\u2019s second largest employer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/amazon\">Amazon<\/a>, has failed to live up to its promises to compensate them for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/10\/amazon-trafficking-links-claims-saudi-arabia-workers-abuses\">financial abuses<\/a> tied to their work for the online retailer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/saudiarabia\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Amazon promised to reimburse recruitment fees to its contract workers from Asia who had been forced to pay large sums to secure jobs at the company\u2019s warehouses in Saudi Arabia. Since then, Amazon has paid more than $2.6m in compensation to roughly 950 workers from multiple countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/oct\/06\/amazon-workers-saudi-arabia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1e960a333e4482edaa0958c0fe90fb4f7abe02d1\/669_325_2928_2343\/master\/2928.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ae8f6b66ee5577e65fd37fe4d4b4031e\" title=\"\u2018We want justice\u2019: workers at Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia still waiting on financial redress\" \/>Asian migrant laborers who paid predatory recruiting fees say global mega-corporation has not kept its promise to pay them restitution<br \/>\nWarehouse laborers from Asia say the world\u2019s second largest employer, Amazon, has failed to live up to its promises to compensate them for financial abuses tied to their work for the online retailer in Saudi Arabia.<br \/>\nIn 2023, Amazon promised to reimburse recruitment fees to its contract workers from Asia who had been forced to pay large sums to secure jobs at the company\u2019s warehouses in Saudi Arabia. Since then, Amazon has paid more than $2.6m in compensation to roughly 950 workers from multiple countries. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian migrant laborers who paid predatory recruiting fees say global mega-corporation has not kept its promise to pay them restitution Warehouse laborers from Asia say the world\u2019s second largest employer, Amazon, has failed to live up to its promises to compensate them for financial abuses tied to their work for the online retailer in Saudi &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/06\/we-want-justice-workers-at-amazon-warehouses-in-saudi-arabia-still-waiting-on-financial-redress\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018We want justice\u2019: workers at Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia still waiting on financial redress<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20358,"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\/20357"}],"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=20357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}