Nagelmackers' firm, La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens, furnished the train, which had sleeping, restaurant, and salon cars that housed smoking compartments and ladies' drawing rooms.
Thousands of victims are trafficked into slavery in the UK and kept hidden in plain sight, often working seven days a week for little or no pay in nail salons, car washes, building sites, kitchens, factories and farms.
Now the "staging dates" are beginning to cover smaller employers – those with 60 staff from 1 October – and from June next year the micro employers – the hair salons, car repair yards, etc – will have to start paying in.
On a smaller scale, the pot-dealing suburbanites of "Weeds" on Showtime and the apologia of torture on Fox's "24," even advance word of the yet-unseen "Pushing Daisies" on ABC, ignite spirited discussion on blogs, in hair salons, car pools, at dinner parties and even in university towns, where fewer and fewer people claim never to watch television.
Thirty-six businesses -- including a beauty salon, a car detailing shop, a graphic design firm and a gift basket company run by women -- received loans.
The village has also a hair salon, a car dealer and garage and a craft shop.
Restaurant workers aren't the only ones who rely on tipped wages: nail salon employees, car washers, bell hops, and others work for a tipped wage and are similarly privy to wage theft.
The Assembly could easily pass a Senate bill making it far tougher and more expensive for employers to cheat the lowest-paid workers in nail salons or car washes or restaurants.
Other people, mostly migrants, are being exploited on fishing trawlers – 20-hour work days and unable to go ashore without the proper papers – and yet more are staffing our beauty salons, our car washes and our fast-food outlets, hidden by their "owners" in plain sight and invisibly handcuffed by lack of money and documentation, threats to their families and beatings after failed escape attempts.
