ABSTRACT
A Togo national, S, complained that her employer’s treatment amounted to slavery, forced labour and servitude. Aged 15 years and 7 months on arrival in France her employers confiscated her passport until she could repay her air fare. They promised to regularise her immigration status and educate her
A Dutch football player’s contract expired on 1st July 1978 but prior to that he was offered a new contract, which he
but she was transferred to another family. She had to work 15 hours a day with inadequate rest, no pay, no education and nothing done about her immigration status. Her employer was prosecuted and although the court accepted failure to pay her, the offence of being subjected to conditions incompatible with human dignity was rejected. Limited compensation was awarded but S argued that French law failed to safeguard her Art 4 rights.
