Wuddi@lemmy.zip to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days agoNone of the world's top coffee companies have committed to paying farmers a living wage even though this is set to become a legal obligation in the EUwww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkNone of the world's top coffee companies have committed to paying farmers a living wage even though this is set to become a legal obligation in the EUwww.reuters.comWuddi@lemmy.zip to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days agomessage-square5linkfedilinkcross-posted to: world@lemmy.world
minus-squareTiral@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·26 days agoWhy would you take that job? That’s hard work for less than minimum wage? Is the job market that bad?
minus-squaredecipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·26 days agoDesperate immigrants, impoverished eastern Europeans, or Roma. I see it a lot where I live. They get paid minimum wage for backbreaking labor during harvest season, and they live in a poorer country the rest of the year.
Why would you take that job? That’s hard work for less than minimum wage? Is the job market that bad?
Desperate immigrants, impoverished eastern Europeans, or Roma. I see it a lot where I live. They get paid minimum wage for backbreaking labor during harvest season, and they live in a poorer country the rest of the year.