iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages

Re:iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause ... by incrudible on Monday December 21, 2020 @02:52PM (#25498750)

The employer tried to get out of paying its workers, which can work but only for a while. Nothing forced these worker to stay aboard except their hope to get paid eventually. It's fraud, that is all there is to it.

Speaking of actual modern day slavery, there's always some form of coercion, some threat of violence, some legal/immigration issues that keeps the worker from leaving. This just isn't the case here.

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Re:iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause ... by indymike on Monday December 21, 2020 @06:16PM (#25500896)

"there's always some form of coercion, some threat of violence, some legal/immigration issues that keeps the worker from leaving."

Actually, there were coercive disciplinary policies in play, too. For example, if you questioned the pay shortage, your id card was taken from you.

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Re:iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause ... by incrudible on Monday December 21, 2020 @08:52PM (#25501992)

Do you have a source for that? I can not find anything like that in the reporting.

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Re:iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause ... by indymike on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @10:03PM (#25513937)

Sure. https://m.businesstoday.in/story/wistron-violence-salary-iss...

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Re:iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause ... by incrudible on Saturday December 26, 2020 @08:07PM (#25547886)

Thanks. I'm not sure that "identity card" here would mean something like a passport versus a company identification card. Taking away the passport is indeed a common scheme in human trafficking, but these seem to be domestic workers so it's unclear how that would work.

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