{"id":7605,"date":"2026-10-10T23:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/?page_id=7605"},"modified":"2026-10-10T23:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T15:40:39","slug":"justice-for-wage-theft","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mfasia.org\/migrantforumasia\/campaigns\/justice-for-wage-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice for Wage Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Justice for Wage Theft: End the Impunity, Compensate the Stolen Labor of Migrant Workers<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Initiated by Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) and a global coalition of trade unions, civil society organizations, lawyers, and migrant advocates Launched on 1 June 2020 to confront the systemic extraction of migrant labor and demand the immediate establishment of an Urgent Justice Mechanism, cross-border claims processing, and full compensation for all withheld wages and statutory<\/span><\/p>\n

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Understanding Wage Theft <\/span><\/h3>\n

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Wage theft is the total or partial non-payment of contractually owed remuneration and statutory dues. It is deeply embedded across global supply chains and temporary labor migration regimes, functioning as an architecture of exploitation where employers offload financial risks onto workers:<\/span><\/p>\n