Saudi Arabia: migrant workers at Carrefour sites exploited and forced to live in squalor – new report
Workers from Nepal, India and Pakistan made to work 16-hour days and threatened with costly lay-offs if they refused to work overtime
Workers report sleeping six or eight to a room, with one describing it as ‘like a cowshed’
‘Inside Carrefour stores, workers are not treated as humans. They treat workers as animals’ – former warehouse picker
Carrefour, a sponsor of the Paris Olympics with an annual turnover of more than €94 billion, says it has launched an internal investigation
‘Migrant workers in Saudi Arabia continue to be subjected to the country’s kafala sponsorship system, have no guaranteed minimum wage and are prohibited from joining or forming trade unions’ – Marta Schaaf