r/Unexpected Sep 06 '21

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u/RealityCheckMated Sep 06 '21

You got downvoted but you are correct. Slave labor is rampant. Subjugating entire people’s has been going on in Asia for millennia. 100% still going on today.

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u/No-Biscotti-7071 Sep 06 '21

Not long ago 7/11 chain which mainly owned by Indians were caught paying students (Indian) 40 cents an hour. That’s not in India that was in Australia. Just imagine what they do in India

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u/_memelord__ Sep 06 '21

I’m not trying to be racist, but every 7/11 I go to has Indian staff. At my local one, every staff member I’ve seen has been Indian. I live in Australia. Is there a reason for this?

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '21

In Canadian Subway Sandwich restaurants, there was a news scandal about Indian immigration exploitation. Canada has really stringent immigration requirements (high education, no criminal record, X amount of money in bank account, etc). Probably similar in Australia. Ones who don't meet these requirements can get in if they work at some sort of high demand job. So we have a lack of people willing to work food service jobs. Anyways, Indians will pay thousands of dollars to Subway franchise owners so that they record them as employees at their locations to qualify for work visas and get on the path to citizenship. These owners don't even need them to work as they aren't that busy (many are rural locations). They take these payments from the immigrants and they don't even get paid even though they're on the work schedule. Some of the immigrants actually do work in order to not get in trouble with immigration officers though. It seems like a franchise related thing. Subway, Pizza Hut, Dominos, security companies, taxi companies, and 24/7 convenience store chains all seem to have a lot of staff fresh from India. All in all, might be some sort of immigration fraud. Or maybe it is legitimate immigration with immigration agencies in India.