Recurring themes
No contract signed
Different tasks than agreed
Different hours than agreed
Radical changes from contract
Short notice / No notice
Pressure to work long hours
Working in commercial businesses
Housing insecurity, homelessness
Isolation, Short notice
Not paying salary or trial
Paying incorrectly evening, night, week-end, overtime, holidays rates
Not paying sick days
Repeated mistakes on payslips
Bullying, mobbing
Inappropriate tasks
Unreliable work schedule
Excessive surveillance
Yelling, shouting, negative comments, threats
Sexual harassment, physical/verbal
All testimonies had at least one of them, but many also had several of them because they are interconnected
For example: a lack of contract often covers wage-theft, and if the worker asks for a contract, it easily escalates into bullying and/or firing.
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