The berry pickers
Entrepreneurs are sentenced to prison - "misled the berry pickers"
Two carrier entrepreneurs are sentenced to prison for two years and six months for gross human exploitation.
"According to the district court, the berry companies had misled the Thai berry pickers that they would receive the minimum wage according to the Swedish collective agreement and work eight hours a day with two days off a week," writes Lycksele district court in a press release.
The carrier operators are also prohibited from operating for seven years. On the other hand, they are released from liability for abuse in legal proceedings.
The nine affected berry pickers will each receive SEK 80,000 in damages and between SEK 106,000 and 123,000 in compensation for non-payment of wages.
An investigation was started by the police after the authority stopped a group of berry pickers who were traveling in a car with a driving ban, writes TV4. The pickers said their manager had collected their passports when the police asked them to identify themselves.
A month later, a group of 40 berry pickers sought protection from the municipality, which helped them find safe housing, according to TV4.
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Lavish wedding sparks debate in India: 'A mockery'
How much celebration is too much celebration? That question has been raised in India after the long and lavish wedding of the son of Asia's richest man, the BBC reports.
Anant Ambani, son of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, and Radhika Merchant, daughter of two pharmaceutical tycoons, are getting married this weekend after months of festivities. World artists such as Rihanna and Justin Bieber have performed during the celebration and many guests have been assigned private stylists and luxury accommodations. The bride-to-be has worn a series of custom-designed dresses, including one with 20,000 Swarovski crystals.
- The wedding can easily be seen as a kind of mockery, a kind of blindness to reality. At the same time, as ridiculous as it may sound, it is in line with how distorted and next to grotesquely inflated Indian weddings have been in the last decade, author and journalist Santosh Desai told the BBC.
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Louis Vuitton garments cause outrage in Romania
A Louis Vuitton garment has caused anger in the village of Vaideeni in the Carpathians in Romania, writes AFP. According to the residents, the French luxury brand has "stolen" their traditional blouse.
Maria Gioanca, 69, "will not let the garment be stolen". She is one of the 12 women in the village who still sews the traditional blouse.
Louis Vuitton did not want to comment on the case to AFP, but according to several media outlets, the company has apologized and stopped selling the garment on its website.
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