{"id":22481,"date":"2015-04-08T13:42:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T13:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/a-cultural-exchange-program-or-a-ticket-to-sweatshop-labor-in-waikiki\/"},"modified":"2015-04-08T13:42:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T13:42:42","slug":"a-cultural-exchange-program-or-a-ticket-to-sweatshop-labor-in-waikiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/city\/hawaii\/a-cultural-exchange-program-or-a-ticket-to-sweatshop-labor-in-waikiki.html","title":{"rendered":"A Cultural Exchange Program Or A Ticket To Sweatshop Labor In Waikiki?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><strong><i>www.civilbeat.com<\/i><\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take prolonged for a 30-year-old Japanese fritter cook to comprehend that she was removing a tender finish of a deal.<\/p>\n<p>She had arrived in Hawaii usually days before, lured by a guarantee of fritter training as partial of a informative sell module run by a U.S. State Department. The terms of her stay, underneath a visa famous as J-1, were to spend a subsequent 18 months operative in a kitchen of a Waikiki grill \u2014 6 days a week on 8-hour shifts commencement during 6:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>But she found herself toiling inside a kitchen in a change that began during 5:30 a.m. and stretched to 12 hours \u2014 but any breaks or overtime pay.<\/p>\n<p><i>www.civilbeat.com<\/i><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/04\/07\/visa-program-sweatshop-waikiki_n_7019080.html?utm_hp_ref=hawaii&amp;ir=Hawaii<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.civilbeat.com It didn\u2019t take prolonged for a 30-year-old Japanese fritter cook to comprehend that she was removing a tender finish of a deal. She had arrived in Hawaii usually days before, lured by a guarantee of fritter training as partial of a informative sell module run by a U.S. State Department. The terms of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-22481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","tag-hawaii-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}