An independent UN human rights expert on Wednesday expressed concern over Canada's temporary foreign worker programmes, describing them as “a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery”.
  • tal@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    No, they are not. They can stop working; they just won’t be able to continue their job under more-favorable conditions.

    • Aldehyde@kbin.social
      12·
      1 year ago

      American slaves could have stopped working whenever they wanted; they only wouldn’t have been able to continue not being whipped

    • Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Definitions of slavery don’t necessarily require there to be legal ownership of another. Never has.

      Don’t make your own ignorance everyone else’s problem.

      Even if all you did was read the title (which I strongly believe to be the case for you), you maybe noticed the words “contemporary” and “formS”

      What types of questions do you think those words would mean to a curious person engaging with the content in good faith?