France : The exploited Moroccan workers get their residence permit

The four Moroccan loggers who were exploited for one year by their Turkish employer have just received their residence permit.

According to La Nouvelle République, they have been granted the document on September the 14th at Aigurande, a commune in the Indre department in central France.

For the record, For the record, the four Moroccan lumberjacks are originally from Ouaoumana, not far from Khénifra. Two of them arrived in France in June 2017, the others joined them in February 2018. Since then, they worked more than 10 hours in a row each day in a wood cutting site in Indre.

They told media that their employer gave them twenty-minute lunch breaks and picked them up at the end of the day to take them back to the apartment where they were staying. He also made them work in a restaurant that he owns, says one of them.

Days before deciding to lodge a complaint against their boss, he tore their work contracts up.

In August, a labor court in France ruled in favor of the four Moroccan nationals. The latter was found guilty by the Conseil des Prud'hommes in Châteauroux on Thursday, 23rd of August.

The employer will have to pay 3500 euros for two of them and 4500 and 5900 for the two others, indicates the same source.