• workerONE@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    "Workers at the Hinduja family’s Lake Geneva home alleged they were paid $8 for an entire 18-hour shift, an amount less than one-tenth required under Swiss law.

    The family members faced criminal charges of human trafficking for allegations they illegally brought the household staff in and out of Switzerland after confiscating their passports and prevented them from leaving the Swiss property."

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      6 months ago

      They should be getting far more than 4.5 years for doing borderline slavery and illegally detaining/kidnapping.

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      Live in domestic help is extremely common all across India. They probably think they did nothing wrong as it wouldn’t have raised any eyebrows in India.