Detalles del documento

Imprima y guarde

Informe / Comunicado de prensa

Bitter Harvest: Exploitation and Forced Labour of Migrant Agricultural Workers in South Korea

Fecha

2014

Autores

Amnesty International, International Secretariat

Resumen

As of 2013, around 250,000 migrant workers were employed in the Republic of Korea
(South Korea) under the Employment Permit System (EPS). Since the establishment of the
EPS ten years ago, Amnesty International has repeatedly raised concerns on how this work
scheme directly contributes to human and labour rights violations by severely restricting
migrant workers’ ability to change jobs and challenge abusive practices by employers.
Similar concerns have also been raised by a number of UN bodies,2 but the South Korean
government has consistently failed to implement their recommendations. As a consequence,
a significant number of migrant workers continue to be regularly exposed to serious
exploitation, which includes excessive working hours, unpaid overtime, denial of rest days and breaks, threats, violence, trafficking and forced labour Following Amnesty International’s previous research on the EPS in 2006 and 2009,3
this
report focuses on migrant agricultural workers, who account for some 8% of all EPS workers.4
Agriculture is one of the sectors with the least legal safeguards and, consequently, migrant
workers in this sector are at greater risk of exploitation and abuse.

Número del documento

ASA 25/004/2014

Number of pages

87

Institución responsable

Amnesty International, International Secretariat

Lugar de publicación

London, UK

Archivos adjuntos

Conexiones

Palabras clave

Underpayment, Late payment, Denial of Leave, Excessive hours

Los sectores económicos

Agriculture and horticulture workers y Natural resources, agriculture and related production occupations - general

Tipos de contenido

Análisis de políticas, Casos documentados de abuso, Estadísticas sobre el trabajo y las condiciones de vida, La política actual, Número de trabajadores migrantes, y Violación sistémica/estatal de derechos/libertades

Los grupos destinatarios

Legisladores y Conciencia Pública

Relevancia geográfica

South Korea

Idiomas

Inglés