Identification Of Case Issues And Consumer Market

The wages paid to workers on plantations is often below the minimum wage, and perpetuates their “debt peonage- forced labour to repay debt” (Food Empowerment Project, 2016). The Antislavery Organisation states that “the combination of paying salaries below the minimum wage and in arrears, overpricing goods in the estate shop, and providing a large part of their salaries in kind, means that when their wages are due to be pair, workers find they are left with little or no money or even indebted to the estate” (Kaye, 2008). Studies have found that “large majorities in all the communities studied report lack of payment of overtime and legally-mandated employee benefits” and that “almost half report lack of compliance with the legally-mandated minimum wage” (Coverco.org.gt, 2006). There is limited compliance and prosecution of these laws, and this is a due to the fact that “Guatemala registers a high level of corruption, which affects the ability of the police and the justice sector to ensure the rule of law and combat exploitation in the coffee sector (Verite, 2012). There are many