Original report is in German, this is paraphrased translation.
The company Clevy Ltd, a logistics partner of Chinese online retailer Temu, stands accused of exploiting migrants across Europe as cheap forces for returns to China. In Vienna, the financial police found in a warehouse.
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The workers in the warehouse of the company Clevy Ltd in Vienna, a logistics partner of Chinese online retailer Temu, reported relentless exploitation. Up to ten hours a day, often without breaks, they would have carried packages with returns of the Chinese cheap shipment Temu and made them ready for shipment, with low wages and without basic security precautions.
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The pay for workers was 9 to 10 euros per hour and. The young men and women came to Austria from countries such as India or Georgia, who in most cases did not have valid work permits nor social and health insurance.
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They had entered Europe on numerous occasions with tourist visas and had made their way irregularly and through undeclared work after their expiration – in Vienna as well as in Eglisau, Switzerland, where another of several Clevy warehouses exist in Europe.
Even at Clevy in Switzerland, the state employee protection was apparently only a waste: People even work on Sunday. It says, ‘If you don’t want to work, you can stay at home.’ But if you stay home, you know they’ll kick you out. So you come, a former Clevy warehouse worker in Eglisau told a journalist from the Swiss broadcaster SRF. He also plans reports on Clevy this week.
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The ruthless work policy is not limited to Austria and Switzerland. In the wake of the massively expanding Chinese order app business, which relies on low prices for often shitty and sometimes even dangerous products, Clevy has rolled out its business model from France to Slovenia: cost-effective business-to-consumer (B2C) parcel deliveries and returns through extreme wage dumping with the help of Graz, Austria-based subcontractor Wherhouse Eleni GmbH, which operates in several countries.
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The Austrian authorities came unannounced in the Viennese warehouse and closed the warehouse […] However, one source said that the Austrian post office and the parcel service DPD now send return assignment from Temu to an address in the Czech Republic instead of Vienna. A spokesman of Temu logistics partner Cley did not respond to question on that issue.
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During last summer, investigations in Switzerland reveals similar pracices of undeclared work and exploitative, dangerous working conditions at Temu’s partner Clevy in Eglisau. A former worker there was told that he had no right to unemployment benefits after his departure there because Clevy had not insured him on social security. Safety shoes, in order to be able to handle the heavy packages safely, did not exist in the warehouse, he was also the only employee with a forklift driver’s license.