‘Abused workers toil for Tetley tea’

Indian tea plantation workers employed by a company that owns Tetley are paid less than £2 per day and live in inhumane conditions surrounded by cesspools, according to a report released Wednesday.

The workers live in the north-east state of Assam on 24 plantations owned by a company controlled by Tata, the Indian conglomerate that also owns Jaguar Land Rover, and backed by the World Bank.

The report – by the Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute – alleged that plantation workers were bullied over sick leave, denied free health care and subjected to excessive deductions from their meagre pay for “fringe benefits”.

“The living conditions on the plantations presented some of the most conspicuous violations of Indian law,” the report found…

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