Amnesty International’s report, which came out on Monday, said that some employees at the Saudi Arabian Carrefour/Majid Al Futtaim stores were underpaid and overworked, and that their migrant status made them particularly vulnerable.
Amnesty claimed that the information and interviews with 17 men from Nepal, Pakistan, and India were the foundation for its findings.
They worked in Carrefour destinations in Riyadh, Dammam and Jeddah between 2021 to 2024, and essentially all are or alternately were utilized by work supply organizations and contracted out to Majid Al Futtaim.
In a statement, Carrefour stated, “Following Amnesty’s alert, we immediately asked our partner MAF to conduct internal investigations among its employees and subcontractors in Saudi Arabia.”
“We decided to extend our investigations to a wider scope of activities, covering all human rights requirements, in order to prevent potential human rights non-compliance situations within the direct and indirect operations of our franchise partner. To this end, an autonomous master has been selected,” it added.
Laborers told Absolution Worldwide that they had to work 60-hour weeks and were now and again neglected for additional time and compelled to do without rest days, disregarding Saudi work regulation which limits most extreme working hours to 48 every week.
The Saudi government media correspondences office didn’t promptly answer to a solicitation for input on Reprieve’s charges and Carrefour’s reaction.
Reuters has recently written about traveler laborers at different organizations in Saudi Arabia going for a really long time with neglected compensation while living in unsanitary circumstances in desert camps.
In 2020, after being laid off as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of Indian workers filed a lawsuit against a Saudi construction company over unpaid wages.
