Assertion: debt bondage | /r/CapableOf | entail a power imbalance
Facets:
value: between the worker/debtor
type: OTHER
value: between the employer/ creditor
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The Report further notes that debt bondage entails a power imbalance between the employer/ creditor and the worker/debtor that “often increases the worker’s vulnerability to further human rights abuses,” as “employers and creditors are reported to adjust interest rates, to make further deductions arbitrarily as penalties for perceived poor performance, and/or to charge high prices for basic goods or working tools resulting in an increase of the debt and the perpetuation of deeply exploitative situations.