Walmart, a leading food retailer in the US, has suspended a seafood supplier after an advocacy group for foreign workers released a report revealing poor working conditions at the site.
According to the advocacy group, the National Guestworker Alliance, it had found poor working conditions at C J's Seafood, a crawfish company, located in Bridge, Louisiana terrible. Several immigrant workers were forced to work for long hours consecutively and were subjected to threats from superiors.
Guest workers are individuals from abroad who receive special visas to do seasonal work.
The National Guestworker Alliance also released a list of 12 other Wal-Mart food suppliers that employ guest workers and did not comply with the suppliers' conditions, reported the New York Times.
Wal-Mart spokesman Lorenzo Lopez said the retailer had initiated its own investigation of C. J.'s, which supplied its Sam's Club warehouse stores, and had found violations of some of its supplier standards.
"We have suspended C. J.'s Seafood as a supplier, pending the outcome of the investigation," Lopez added.
