A labor court in France has ruled in favor of four Moroccan nationals who left the Kingdom for Indre, a department in central France, to work as lumberjacks, reports France bleu. The four workers, namely Driss, Rashid, Mustapha and Hamid claimed in June that they have been exploited by their employer, who paid them 2,000 euros for working one year for him. 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. Present in the court on Thursday, the four men told media that they are «satisfied to have won the lawsuit», thanking the French justice which «they trusted», reports La Nouvelle Republique. 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.
